Welcome to
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Timeless Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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Today, we're tackling
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the subject of stress.
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It's a two part mini
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series designed
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to give you some,
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well, new insights,
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new techniques
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that can help you deal
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with those stressors
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in your life.
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Just what does
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the Bible have to say about it?
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And can medical science
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give us some
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additional insights?
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Father in Heaven,
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we thank You for the privilege
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You give us
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of just coming together.
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Thank you
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that Your Word is
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living and active.
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And we pray that
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whether we are here in person
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in this setting
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or whether we are
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viewing from a distance,
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whether it's live
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or whether
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the recorded program,
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we just pray that You would
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bless each one,
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that You'd guide our minds
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as we open Your Word.
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We ask it
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all in Jesus name, Amen.
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Our memories
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are so, so very short.
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Person is a hero one day
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and the next day
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they're totally forgotten.
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Some of you may know
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the name
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of Charles Ferguson Smith,
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but others of
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you are looking at the screen
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with blank stares.
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Charles Ferguson Smith.
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General Smith
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of the Union
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Army was a Civil War hero.
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But not only was he
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distinguished in the Civil War,
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he was also distinguished
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in the earlier
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Mexican-American War.
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Now, some of you should
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be connecting the dots
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because we are in
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northwestern Indiana.
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Do you know
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his special significance
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to this part of the country?
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One of the place
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where he places
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where he distinguished
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himself was in one of the
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decisive Mexican-American war
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battles.
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Back in August 20 of 1847.
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How soon we forget?
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How long ago was that?
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So you're
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saying that was
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a long time ago.
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But something else happened
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in 1847
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in northwestern Indiana.
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Do any of you know
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I know you're
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just trying to be modest
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because the Battle
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of Churubusco
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took place in Mexico,
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and one of the
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distinguished officers
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was none other than then,
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that's right,
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he was a lieutenant colonel
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at that time, but
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General Smith.
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Yeah.
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You got the history down.
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So General Smith, though,
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unfortunately died
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during the Civil War.
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What's perhaps
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the most interesting thing
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about him
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as far as stress management
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in our dialog today,
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at least from my vantage
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point, is he died not from
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any enemy casualty.
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He was not a war casualty,
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even though he died
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during the war.
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He actually died because of
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an infection.
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And he sustained this infection
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because the account says
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I mean, there's different
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historical accounts.
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Some say he scraped his leg
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when jumping into a boat
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during his generalship.
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Others said it was more
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than just a scratch.
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It was a
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quite a deep or nasty cut.
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But either way,
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this was what
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set the stage
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for an infection
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that claimed his life.
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Now, that may not sound
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all that dramatic to you,
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and you might think
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that not too many people
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die of infection today.
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But if you're in the
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medical community,
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you realize that infection
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is still a leading
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cause of death.
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Even with all our
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antibiotics and
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lifesaving therapies
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that we have, some 1.7
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million adults
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develop one of these
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overwhelming infections,
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blood infections
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that we call sepsis.
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One in six of them will die.
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And if you actually do
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the math, that means every day
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700 people in our country die
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from sepsis.
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Well, you say,
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okay, well,
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what does all this have to do
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with stress management?
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I came here
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hoping for stress management
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help, and you're
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just stressing me out
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with something else
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I've got to worry about.
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Well, actually, stress
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has something in common
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with sepsis and infection.
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Sepsis, you see, can be thought
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of as a failure
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of the immune system.
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Now we're not trying to
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blame anyone
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for getting septic.
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We don't want to blame
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General Smith or anyone else.
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But it is
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when the germs
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get their upper hand
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on your immune system.
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And this is really a powerful
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analogy with stress.
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Let's go back to
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to General Smith.
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Quite ironic,
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at least from my vantage
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point as a physician.
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He was one of the heroes of
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of Union General Grants,
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one of his early campaigns,
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because General Smith
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was a key figure
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in breaching the defenses
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of Fort Donelson.
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You may know
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civil war history early
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in some of those
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Western campaigns
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that Grant was involved with.
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He did what?
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He breached
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the defenses of Fort Donelson.
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Why I find this
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so ironic is
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because he ended up dying
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because germs
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were able to what?
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Breach his immune system's
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first line of defense,
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which is our skin.
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Interesting, isn't it?
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If we understand
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the immune system
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and just some basics,
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don't worry,
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we won't give you
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a full medical school lecture.
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But I believe if we understand
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just some basics
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about the immune system,
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we can better understand
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how to deal with any stresses
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that we face in life.
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You game for this?
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Hang in there with me
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and we'll try to give you
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a different framework,
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perhaps for dealing
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with the stresses in your life.
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So there's parallels
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between the immune system
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and our stress
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management system.
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So just as we began
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speaking about kind of
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first lines of defense,
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that your immune system has
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to protect us.
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So it is
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with our bodies and stress.
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So immune system,
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stress system,
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multiple lines of defense.
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Let's talk about them.
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First of all,
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as we've been alluding
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to, our bodies
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have a first line of defense
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and it's passive.
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We're not doing anything.
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It's not specially
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focused on anything.
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But we've got things
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like our skin.
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The physical
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barrier of our skin
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is a powerful,
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powerful protector
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against infection.
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That's why large burns
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are so devastating.
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At least one of the reasons.
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So we have physical barriers
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like our skin.
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We also have this mucosa, this
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lining,
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on things like our mouth
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and our digestive system
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and our respiratory system
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into our lung,
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going into our lungs
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and our reproductive system.
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This mucosa also protects us.
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It's a line of defense.
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And then we have
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specific substances
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like the acid in our stomachs
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that protect us from infection.
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Now, you may or may
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not realize this,
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but if you're taking an acid
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blocking drug,
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you're lowering
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your immune system.
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This nonspecific
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first line of defense
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when it comes to
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food poisoning.
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So you're taking an acid
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blocking drug,
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you're more susceptible
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to food borne infection.
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Doesn't mean you should stop
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that medicine,
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of course, consult
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with your doctor
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if you've been prescribed
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something. Right.
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But are you getting the picture
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here?
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We've got some general things
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that protect us from infection.
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Now, it's true also
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when it comes to stress.
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We have some passive
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nonspecific things that help
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to protect us from stress.
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And these we usually categorize
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as resiliency
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factors, things that protect
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us, things that help us
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without any specific
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focus on any given stressor,
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they're helping us
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to be less likely
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adversely affected by
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anything that comes at us.
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Now, if we take this analogy
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a little bit further,
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our immune system
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has certain cells.
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They?actually
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cellular defense
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mechanisms
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to protect us from infection.
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So we have something
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called the innate immune system
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that is nonspecific.
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And then we have something
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that's specific.
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We call it the acquired
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immune system.
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Let's just
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look briefly at these two arms
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of your cellular immune system.
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So the cells in
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this preprogrammed
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innate immune system
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are things like,
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you may have heard of them,
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the neutrophils
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and the macrophages,
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two types of white blood cells.
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Now let's just step away
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from all this technical stuff
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and talk about something fun
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like video games. Okay?
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How many of you in the old days
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ever heard
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of something called Pacman?
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Do you know what
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the Pacman did?
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He ate things up.
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Okay.
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One of the early video games.
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Well,
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this is how your
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macrophages work.
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They work like Pacman
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and they actually gobble up
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invading germs.
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They are macrophages.
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Macro means large.
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What is phage to refer to?
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To eat, okay?
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So they're just
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gobbling up things.
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They work against
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different microbes
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that come into your system.
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They respond quickly.
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They are not targeted
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just to one germ or another.
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Now, you also have an acquired
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immune system
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in this illustration here,
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whether you can see it
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well or not,
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the green is a bacterium
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and the pink
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are supposed
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to represent antibodies.
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So these are
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specific antibodies
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that attack
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just this particular bacterium.
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Okay.
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And this is a slower system
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because if your body
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has not been exposed
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to that particular microbe,
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it has to make
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specific antibodies
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to deal with it.
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So this is where you have
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some very specific
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immune functioning.
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They say,
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What does all this have to do
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with your stress system?
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Well, it's
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because this is true
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in the stress system as well.
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You have these
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general protective
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preventive things,
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these resiliency factors,
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but then you have
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specific things,
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general strategies
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that can work for any stressor,
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and then specific strategies
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that work
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for specific stressors.
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So from that framework,
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I want to take you to,
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believe it or not, the Bible.
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But before we go,
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I just want to make
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you make sure that you've got
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my general organization down.
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What we're going
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to walk through with you
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in this presentation.
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We're going to talk
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about General passive
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protective things.
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They're passive
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because they're not focused
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on any specific insult.
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They just help you
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be more resilient.
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We're going to look
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at some general things
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that help you
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to deal with stress.
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Then we're going to look
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at some general active things.
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These are things
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that you can use
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in the face of any stressor,
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kind of like your
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innate immune system.
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But then we're going to look
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at some specific
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things, active strategies
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that work
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for specific stressors.
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Have you got the analogy down?
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So let's see if this
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if this works.
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So we want to especially
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look at this
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from a Biblical perspective.
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And the Bible really
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does help us on all
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these levels.
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So we're going to start where?
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With these general passive
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strategies, things
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that make us more resilient,
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things that make us less likely
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to be overcome by stress.
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And here's the first one.
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Number one,
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a general passive strategy,
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and I call it the Why, the Why.
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Here's number one.
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You are of value by creation.
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Do you realize that
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just realizing
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that you are of value
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can help you
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with a lot of the stressors
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in this world?
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You know, many people struggle
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with a sense of meaning.
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Here is what the Bible says
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in Psalm 139,
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I praise you because I am what?
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Fearfully and wonderfully made;
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your works are wonderful,
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I know that full well.
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Isn't this amazing?
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God has created you.
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He has a special love
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for you as His child
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by creation.
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But here's another why.
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Why you should be
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concerned
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about caring for your body,
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but why you can have resiliency
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in the face of challenges.
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You're a value by redemption.
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I think most of you know
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John 3:16.
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And whether you memorize it
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in the New King
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James version or another,
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the message is simple,
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isn't it?
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God so loved you, the world,
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everyone on this planet,
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that He gave
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His only begotten Son.
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You're not only a value
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because of creation,
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but you're very valuable
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because God gave His only Son
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for you.
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Number
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three, here's the How now.
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So we've been looking
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at understanding
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some of these things
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that are the why,
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why we're a value by creation
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and by redemption.
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This gives us resiliency
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when we're dealing
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with difficulties
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we?important to God,
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even if it doesn't seem
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that way sometimes.
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But now we have something
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that brings this to us
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into application
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for each of us.
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Paul is writing to the church
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in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 6,
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and he says this,
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Do you not know
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that your body is
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the temple of the Holy Spirit
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who is in you,
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whom you have from God,
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and you are not your own?
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For you were bought at a price;
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therefore glorify
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God in your body
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and in your spirit,
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which are God?So not only
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do you have meaning because
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Christ died for you,
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but because
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you've been bought with
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the price.
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God is saying
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you should care for yourself.
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You should care for your body
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as a body temple.
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Now think about this
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for a minute.
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If let's say
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you have a rich uncle
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and your rich uncle gives you a
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red Lamborghini, okay?
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Now I have to tell,
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you guys are trying to,
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you know, Lamborghini
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doesn't cut it. It's a Camaro.
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Is that right?
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Am I finally getting it?
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Okay. Okay. A red Camaro.
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Whatever you want.
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He gives you this
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vehicle, okay?
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So how do you care
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for that vehicle
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if you care about your uncle?
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Are you going to
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take good care of it?
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The gift,
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how you care for the gift
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not only shows
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how much
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you appreciate the gift,
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but how much you value
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the giver.
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So God has given you
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this gift of life
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and He asks you to glorify
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God in your body.
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So this is giving you somehow,
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this is so you're developing
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some perspective on resilience
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because you want to care
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for this body that
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God's given you.
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But there's more
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to it than that.
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There is more to it than that.
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You can strengthen your ability
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to deal with any stressor
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if you develop this practice
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focusing on things
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that are good.
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And here's
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the particular focus,
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at least in Matthew 7.
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Jesus has just been preaching
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through His Sermon
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on the Mount.
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And when He comes to chapter
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7, verse 24,
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He is concluding
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this powerful sermon
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and He says, Therefore,
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whoever hears
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these sayings of Mine,
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and does them,
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I will liken him to a wise man
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who built his house on what?
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On the rock.
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But everyone who hears
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these sayings of Mine,
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and does not do them,
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they will be like a foolish man
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who built his house on what?
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On the sand.
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So what is it
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that differentiates
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the one who is going to fail?
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Right? Is this the imagery?
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You build
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your house on the sand,
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what are you setting
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yourself up to do?
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fail - to be overcome?
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If you set
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yourself on a rock,
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you're setting yourself
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to be successful.
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Building on the rock.
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In this analogy,
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what's the good thing
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we should be focusing on?
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On Jesus and His Word.
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Hear these sayings of Mine,
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Jesus said, and do them.
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So how do you hear
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God's sayings?
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How do you hear them?
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That's right.
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You study your Bible, okay?
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You engage with the Word,
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whether it's in a sermon,
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whether it's in a Sabbath
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School class,
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whether it's
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in your personal devotions.
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But it doesn't say
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just hear these
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sayings of Mine.
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What else does
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the Scripture say?
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You do them, okay?
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And these are secrets
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to helping us avoid the ravages
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of stress
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before the stress comes at us.
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Now, how do we,
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how are we to invest
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in self-care?
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The Bible has some
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interesting insights about it,
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and Luke 21
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is an interesting place to go.
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Some of you
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that have been with us
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on a regular basis,
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we've been going
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through the Gospel of Mark
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and we've taken a little break
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here from our study
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through Mark's gospel.
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We are approaching Mark 13.
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That's where
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we?be when we next
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open the pages of Mark's
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Gospel.
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Mark 13 is paralleled
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by Matthew 24 and Luke 21.
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It's speaking about
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some really stressful times,
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speaking both
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about the destruction
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of Jerusalem
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that was to come in 70 A.D.
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Jesus speaking
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these words shortly
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before His crucifixion
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and also referring
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to the end of the world
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when Jesus comes back
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the second time.
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Let's look at Luke 21
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and see what counsel Jesus had
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that relates to us
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as far as dealing with stress.
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But take heed to yourselves,
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lest your hearts
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be weighed down
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with carousing,
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drunkenness,
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and cares of this life,
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and that Day come on
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you unexpectedly.
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Watch therefore, and pray
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always that you may be counted
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worthy to escape
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all these things
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that will come to pass,
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and to stand
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before the Son of Man.
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So here's
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the interesting thing.
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Jesus is speaking about
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three categories of things
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that will undermine our ability
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to stand in times
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of great stress.
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It's translated here
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as carousing, drunkenness,
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and cares of this life.
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If you were to
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look at the Greek,
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the first two words clearly
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refer to intoxication.
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The third
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word cares of
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this life
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seems a bit more innocuous,
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doesn't it?
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After all,
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we have to be concerned
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about this life, right?
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Hopefully you have some concern
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for cares of this life.
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What's going on here?
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Well,
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let's pay attention
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first to the first two,
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because it is shocking to me
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as a physician
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and as a pastor,
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that we've got quite a bit
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of Madison Avenue,
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the marketing world
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focused on trying
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to convince people
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that something is great fun.
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What does it seem like
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there is great efforts
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to convince people is great fun
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that does nothing
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but undermines your ability
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to deal with stress?
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It's alcoholic beverages, okay?
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Now, some of you may
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be social drinkers.
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I realize we have visitors here
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as well as church members.
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And you may be social drinkers.
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Don't believe the commercials.
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I'm just telling you,
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from where I sit
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as a physician, it's a lie.
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These people all out there,
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you know, they say, But hey,
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you know, Dr.
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DeRose,
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I just enjoy a
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glass of wine or,
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you know, a beer or whatever.
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I'm just telling you,
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we see where it goes
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in the medical community.
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And let me tell you,
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from the standpoint of stress,
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how it works.
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Neurologically,
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do you know
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first where alcohol works?
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That's right.
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It works on your frontal lobe
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where your wisdom
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and your judgment
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and your foresight are.
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And I could tell you
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real life stories from patients
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who've come into my office,
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having done things
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that they told me
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they'd never would have done
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had they not had often
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just a little bit of alcohol.
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The amount of
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stress in our world
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that is caused
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by alcoholic beverages,
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I would say,
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you could argue
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is incalculable.
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How can you,
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how can you measure it?
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Alcoholic beverages
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also undermine our health.
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And if we're to
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extend the analogy back
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to where we started
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with the immune system,
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alcohol is an
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immune suppressant.
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So alcoholic beverages
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are not your friend.
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By the way,
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they also undermine
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your mucosa,
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your defenses
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and your
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gastrointestinal tract.
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We see this
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actually quite often
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in the medical community.
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There's a case
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study in the Bible
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some of you may know,
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not very far into the Bible.
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In its third book,
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the book of Leviticus 10, Nadab
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and Abihu,
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two sons of the high priest,
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Aaron, they have been given
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special privileges.
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They are among
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the priestly clan.
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And here's how
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this story plays out.
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Nadab and Abihu,
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it says, they
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took their sensors
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and they put fire in it.
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They put incense
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in those sensors
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and then
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it says
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they offered profane fire
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before the Lord,
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which he had not
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commanded them.
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So fire went out from
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before the Lord
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and devoured them
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and they died before the Lord.
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Now you
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say, what is going on here?
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Well, in the
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sanctuary system,
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there were very specific
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things
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that the priests had to do.
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It wasn't just like, hey,
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just whatever way
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you feel like, just do it.
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And in fact,
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there was only sacred fire
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that was to be used
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in the sanctuary.
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And for some reason
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they didn't use
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that sacred fire.
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You might say, Well,
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what's going on here?
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But if you read
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a little bit further,
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Leviticus connects the dots.
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The Lord speaks
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to Aaron saying,
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Do not do what?
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Do not drink
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wine or intoxicating
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drink, you,
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nor your sons with you,
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when they go
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into the tabernacle
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of the meeting.
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Why?
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Lest you die,
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it shall be a statute forever
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throughout your generations
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that you may distinguish
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between holy and unholy
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and between unclean and clean.
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Now, some critics want to say,
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Well, God is just a terrible
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God If He just
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kill these people.
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Before you attribute
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something to God's
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active judgment,
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just realize this.
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God's very presence
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was in the sanctuary.
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.07
And we're told in the Bible
00:24:04.07\00:24:06.78
that God's
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presence is a consuming fire
00:24:07.58\00:24:10.58
to sin.
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Okay?
00:24:11.85\00:24:13.21
So if you go in God's presence
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and you're holding on to sin,
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it doesn't sound like a
00:24:20.56\00:24:23.56
good conclusion
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is going to come of it right?
00:24:24.59\00:24:27.60
Here's a simple point.
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.76
The simple point
00:24:29.76\00:24:31.67
is these young men
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met their end
00:24:33.97\00:24:35.10
because of something
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being told in society
00:24:36.64\00:24:38.67
is just good, clean fun.
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By the way,
00:24:40.84\00:24:41.44
those of you
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that have been around
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long enough,
00:24:42.88\00:24:43.45
the same type of commercials
00:24:43.55\00:24:45.21
that are used today
00:24:45.21\00:24:46.11
to promote alcoholic beverages
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in the
00:24:47.95\00:24:48.65
into the sixties
00:24:48.65\00:24:50.25
in the United States
00:24:50.25\00:24:51.15
were used to promote what?
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That's right, tobacco
00:24:52.89\00:24:55.06
smoking, okay?
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And finally,
00:24:56.69\00:24:58.46
when all the dots
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are connected,
00:24:59.19\00:24:59.79
you realize where
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all these things go.
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They are really not
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your friends.
00:25:02.80\00:25:04.10
They're not your friends.
00:25:04.10\00:25:05.43
They're undermining your body's
00:25:05.43\00:25:08.37
defenses,
00:25:08.37\00:25:09.27
stress wise
00:25:09.27\00:25:10.51
as well as immune system wise.
00:25:10.51\00:25:12.67
Cares of this life,
00:25:12.67\00:25:14.28
what are they?
00:25:14.28\00:25:15.14
We talked about these
00:25:15.14\00:25:16.31
alcoholic beverages.
00:25:16.31\00:25:17.65
In what ways?
00:25:17.65\00:25:18.61
Just a question for you.
00:25:18.61\00:25:20.22
In what ways
00:25:20.22\00:25:21.05
do you know that you're
00:25:21.05\00:25:22.72
undermining your own health?
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.39
Glad no one's shouting out.
00:25:27.09\00:25:29.49
But we we often we often
00:25:29.49\00:25:31.99
enjoy things that we know
00:25:31.99\00:25:34.10
are harmful to us.
00:25:34.10\00:25:35.10
We see this
00:25:35.10\00:25:36.36
frequently and all the patients
00:25:36.36\00:25:37.90
say, well, you know,
00:25:37.90\00:25:38.63
I know
00:25:38.63\00:25:38.90
I shouldn't be doing this.
00:25:39.27\00:25:40.90
And
00:25:40.90\00:25:42.57
it's true
00:25:42.57\00:25:43.24
with the stress system as well.
00:25:43.24\00:25:45.27
If God's convicting you
00:25:45.27\00:25:46.81
about something,
00:25:46.81\00:25:48.14
is He doing it
00:25:48.14\00:25:48.78
to make your life miserable?
00:25:48.78\00:25:51.41
No, He's
00:25:51.41\00:25:52.18
trying to make things easier.
00:25:52.18\00:25:54.22
The Bible says
00:25:54.22\00:25:55.25
God wants to give you fullness
00:25:55.25\00:25:57.55
of joy
00:25:57.55\00:25:58.95
and pleasures forever more.
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.69
You can read about that
00:26:00.69\00:26:01.56
in Psalm 16.
00:26:01.56\00:26:03.59
So here's my point.
00:26:03.59\00:26:05.19
God is trying to build up
00:26:05.19\00:26:06.63
your general resolve
00:26:06.63\00:26:07.76
by trusting in Him,
00:26:07.76\00:26:08.86
realizing that you're of value
00:26:08.86\00:26:10.87
and that He wants you to care
00:26:10.87\00:26:12.60
for your bodies.
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Lifestyle factors
00:26:18.01\00:26:19.24
surely are powerful
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when it comes to
00:26:20.58\00:26:21.51
our resiliency.
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That's one of the determinants
00:26:22.74\00:26:24.01
of how susceptible
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When you sign up
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we?enroll
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you in the program.
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Every day for 30 days,
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you'll get practical
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insights, things
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that are designed to boost
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your resilience, help
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you perform better
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mentally,
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physically, emotionally.
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Don't miss it.
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Performance Boost 30.
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And if you're catching this
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in advance of June 24th,
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I invite you to join me live
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at
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TimelessHealingInsights.org
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/boost.
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