The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good health
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and is not
intended to take the place
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of personalized
professional care.
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The opinions and ideas expressed
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are those of the speaker.
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Viewers are encouraged to
draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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You want to be healthy?
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The first step
you may need to take
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is to grab a flashlight
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and look under
your bed. Stay tuned.
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I am Dr. James
Marcum. Are you interested
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in discovering the
reason why you want solutions
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to your healthcare problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
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the ultimate prescription.
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There are a lot of
health plans in this world
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and most offer a
degree of security,
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but usually at a
pretty hefty price.
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And most health
plans concentrate
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on making sick people well.
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But God adds
something else in his approach.
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He wants well people
to stay that way forever.
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How does he do that?
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The answer is found in
a rather unusual place.
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Dr. Marcum, a lot of physicians
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may not exactly jump on
the idea that this book,
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God's Word is part
of a healing process.
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Where did you find it?
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Well, Charles, it's
been a real journey for me.
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And I can
remember several years ago,
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when I was a
resident in internal medicine,
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I was working on the
hematology oncology service.
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And there they took care
of many people with cancer.
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And I was taking care of this 30
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something year old gentleman
that had multiple myeloma.
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And the treatment from
that was to bombard him
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with heavy chemotherapy,
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which really
knocked out his blood cells.
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And then we give him antibiotics
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to help him prevent infections.
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And then we give
him blood transfusions
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and he got so
that he couldn't eat.
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So we fed him
with hyperalimentation.
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Then we gave him a
bone marrow transplant
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and he was in the
unit month after month
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and I can remember
seeing his family, come in.
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They were so hopeful.
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They just wanted to
see him, daddy get better.
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And everyday he kept
getting weaker and weaker,
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Charles, and
eventually this gentleman
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despite all that
modern medicine could do,
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eventually he died.
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And I can remember
that empty feeling I had,
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you know, you always
have an empty feeling
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when you lose a patient.
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With this empty feeling as such,
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I was just starting
out my medical career.
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I wanted to do
something for him.
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I wanted to
help him and nothing,
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nothing I did seemed to help.
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And I didn't
say the magical word
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so I went down and talked to God
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and said God, you know,
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if this is what
medicine is gonna be like
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the rest of my life,
I just don't want it.
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I can't handle this empty
feeling when someone dies.
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And, you know,
people die all the time,
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but I thought like I
should have done something more.
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And during that time
in my life I realized
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that I hadn't been given
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all the answers
in medical school.
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Sure I knew all the
technical things to do.
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I knew all the, you
know, dancy treatments,
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but I didn't really
necessarily understand
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the true depth of healing.
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In that time period, I
started going to the Bible
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and finding
answers for my own life.
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And in those answers I found out
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lo and behold that the Bible
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had the answers
for medical questions.
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The Bible was
really my textbook.
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This was the place I
should be looking first
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and not medical, you know,
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medical textbooks
for the real answers
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to these big complex problems.
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You know, you were
looking at the science
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and a very common misconception
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is that there is God
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and then there is science.
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And sometimes God and science
are at odds with each other
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when the truth of the matter
is God created science. Yes.
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We're missing that point.
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And then through the years,
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and this didn't
happen right away,
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through the years, I
began going to discover
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that the truths in the Bible
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were backed up by science. Yes
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And article after
article started proving
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these concepts that taking
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a day off a week
helped your chemistry,
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help lower your
adrenaline and cortisol,
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lowered your cholesterol.
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That when you drank more water,
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ate the right way or
having love in your life.
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All these things were
literally prescriptions
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and treatments to
change our chemistry
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and then I realized
that this prescription
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called love how we were supposed
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to be in a love
relationship with our Creator
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and have a great time with Him,
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that was the part of
the healing pyramid too.
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And I realized that when we
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didn't have that nothing
else really mattered, Charles.
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And I wished that
I could go back now
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and go to that gentleman's room
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and say listen, you know,
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I know that modern medicine
isn't gonna fix everything,
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but, you know, if
you can just say a prayer
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and start a relationship
with the heavenly Father,
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you know, he might not choose
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to heal you now
with modern medicine,
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but He has a future for
you, a healed future. Yes.
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Where you don't have to
have the illness anymore.
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He loves you and he's
gonna make things well with you
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if you have this relationship.
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So this has been a slow journey
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that I don't see a
lot of people saying that,
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you know, the real prescriptions
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come from the Bible.
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This is the real--
we have this concept
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that doctors can fix
everything, you know,
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but doctors are merely people
that treat a lot of symptoms
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that went to
school for a long time.
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Healing is much more involved.
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Doctors can't be healers.
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But we can be all be
healers when we point people
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and help nurture people
into this great relationship
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and help them understand,
what our God is really like.
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So the true medical
textbook was the Bible.
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That was the
real source of truth
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that I wanted to
let people know about
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and as I learn this, I
learn more things everyday
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about how the Bible
helps change peoples chemistry
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and it has to be
involved in every treatment plan
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to have this ultimate healing.
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So who cares if I help
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a heart attack he feels better
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and lives 40 years
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if he doesn't
have ultimate healing.
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Does it really matter?
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Or what if a
patient is lost, Charles,
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but I know that he's
gonna have a terminal healing
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because he was plugged
into that relationship.
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That loved relationship
that makes everything right.
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So in my search for truth,
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truth took me into
different direction.
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It wasn't in these journals.
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It wasn't purely the journals.
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It wasn't all
this medical textbook.
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It wasn't all the stuff I
was reading on the internet.
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The real source
of truth in medicine
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brought me back to the Bible.
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Right. You know,
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let's start looking
for truth here, okay?
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Dr. Marcum, you and I
have talked about this
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and we have discovered
and you have discovered
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that you go back to the
very beginning of this book.
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Back to the Book of Genesis
and there you begin to find
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a picture of what God
had in line for our health.
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He created a world.
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He created an environment
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and he created
tools in that environment
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and into this environment
he placed Adam and Eve.
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So let's find out what God did.
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Let's take some shows here
or some programs and find out
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what God did that we
today can take advantage of.
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Now the very first thing
God did and lot of people
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can't quite get
their mind around that
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this is a healing teaching.
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But the very first thing
that God did when he began
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the creation of this world,
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He came down here
and He found a void.
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He came down here
and he found darkness.
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A swirling mass of water
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and nothing a whole lot more.
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The Bible
describes it as a void.
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Ever felt like you're in a void?
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Ever felt your life is a void?
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There's nothing
going on that makes sense.
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There's nothing of beauty here.
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The very first thing God did,
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He said, let there be light.
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Now we know that the
sun came a few days later.
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Dr. Marcum, when he
said let there be a light,
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what do you think
he was talking about?
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What was He
bringing to this void
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that is represented by light?
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Well, you know,
you're probably gonna hear
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many theologians say
many different things on this.
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You know, at the opening,
you had your light. Yes.
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You know, what were
you doing with your light?
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You know, but I would like
to think that light is truth.
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You know, God wants to
bring truth into this world.
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Let there be truth.
Let there be truth--Wow.
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That the universal
principles that govern
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not only the earth we live in
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but govern the entire universe.
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For instance, Sir
Isaac Newton on earth
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discovered the
principle of gravity
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and he says if you jump
off a building, Charles,
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you're gonna break. Yes.
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Even if you don't believe
that truth, it's still true.
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Well, these universal truths
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that we're gonna
discover as we go on,
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these medical truths exist
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whether we
believe them or not. Yes.
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So at the very outset
I think that God says,
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you know, this is truth.
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You know, this is
truth I wanna give you.
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You know, this is
what I want to show you,
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how my universe was designed.
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How I was designed to love you.
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This truth that's out there
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and I want to teach you this
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as we move forward
in this relationship.
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I'm gonna teach you my ways.
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I wanna teach you the best ways
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because I love you so much.
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Let's talk about
science just for a little bit.
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I've often
wrestled with the idea
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of what this
void was and how light
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could not even
exist in this void.
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I asked a
scientist that very question
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and he told me about something
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in space called black holes.
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Have you heard of
those black holes?
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I have heard of those.
A black hole is an area
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of space that is so dense
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and so confused and so powerful
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that not even
light can exist in it.
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And again I have to draw
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a parallel here
to a lot of people.
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My life is so dense.
My life is so confused.
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My life is so painful.
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My world is so full
of anger, and guilt,
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and frustration that
light can't exist here.
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And the first thing God does,
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in here it says,
let there be light.
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And I think that's
what He did with this world.
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He took that black
hole, which was this world,
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and He
introduced something there
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that was never there before
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and it made all the difference.
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He introduced light into this.
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Dr. Marcum, when a
patient or a client comes
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and sits in the
chair in your office,
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what are some of the dark holes
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that you're
finding in peoples lives?
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What are some of those barriers
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to the truth getting through
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that they have or
society has or the media
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has brought up
that is keeping them
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from understanding
the light of truth.
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Well, you know,
if I was an evil one
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wanting to destroy the world,
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wanting to destroy
health, I would do justice.
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I would get people
believing a bunch of lies
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and deceptions that
had no truth behind it.
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And I see this going on
when I talk to my patients
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they come in and
they sit on the chair
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and we examine
them and talk to them.
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And you know
what, they'll tell me,
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well, I read
this on the internet
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or I saw this on television.
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This seems to be the
best thing that there is.
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And that's not
what the truth is.
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And they say, well, my
aunt so and so told me this.
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Or you know, I read about this
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but the real barrier
is the source of truth.
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Where do we go to
find the source of truth
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and I try to say,
listen, this is great
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but let's really think
about the source of truth.
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Let's think about
how we were designed
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in the very beginning.
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The source, the book
as the Bible teaches us
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as we should live, as
our temples should live.
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And I also say as we
violate these truths,
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universal truths,
stress is put on our body.
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Our chemistry is changed.
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This chemistry
done day in day out,
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year in year out sooner or later
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causes these
inflammatory proteins,
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this adrenaline, this cortisol.
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We cross that limit of
being able to cope. Yes.
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And sooner or later
we can't sleep well,
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we can't think well.
Our blood pressure goes up.
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We have heart
attacks. We have infections.
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We have all these
chronic illnesses.
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We have genetic
stress that's been passed on
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from generations to generations
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and yet we
think we're programmed
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that we have to live this way.
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But it's not true.
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God does not want
us to live this way.
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He wants us to live way back
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like it was in Genesis. Yes.
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So I first let people
know that there's truth
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and there's a way to find it.
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You know, you can't depend
on others to have the truth.
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This truth starts
in that relationship,
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which you have with
the heavenly Father.
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And in my life, you
know, I found that truth
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when I asked the
Holy Spirit to come in.
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You know, I can't do
anything right, Charles,
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but when I ask God to come in
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and make some changes
and give me some power,
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all the sudden,
he teaches me truth
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and let's me know
what's true no matter what.
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Well, that is amazing because
we are now opening a door
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that a lot of people
have never considered before
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and that door
is a door to truth.
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And it's really
simple. God created us.
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God put together a world
and an environment for us.
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God put together a relationship
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for us to enjoy.
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And God says these are the laws
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that you live by.
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These are the laws
that bring healing.
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This is what you need
to know to be healthy.
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We're gonna examine
those laws week after week.
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And as soon as we
comeback, we're gonna talk
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about some questions
that have been sent into
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the
heartwiseministries.org website
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that these laws can
apply to, so stay tuned.
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