The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good
health and is not intended
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to take the place of
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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
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conclusions about the
information presented.
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Birds and fish
God's edition to our world
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on day five of creation week.
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Where do they fit
into God's health plan?
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The answer may
surprise you. Stay tuned.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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You want solutions to
your health care problems.
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be
given the ultimate prescription.
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I'm gonna go out in
limp here and suggest
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that birds and fish
weren't brought into existence
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so that we could have
more variety in our meals.
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What did God have in mind?
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Dr. Marcum, I put that
question to you. Why birds?
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You know, Charles, this is such
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a challenging
question, why birds? Why?
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What do we talk about
this at health program?
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What's it gonna with heart?
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What's it have to
do with heart attacks?
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What's it have
to do with cancer?
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What's it have to
do with arthritis?
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What's it have to do
about the way I feel?
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And yet if we
follow God's perfect plan
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there must be a reason.
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Yes. So I wanna
explore that a little bit.
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You know, one of the things
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that I like to
hear is birds sing.
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They help us to
appreciate songs and music.
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You know, that
changes the way we think about
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everything when we
have songs and alike.
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When you hear a
bird sing or you hear
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a great piece of
music we know that
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that has a calming
effect on the chemistry.
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It helps settle people
down. It helps them relax.
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Likewise, when people
hear blaring dissonant sounds
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things start getting
messed up and it starts
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changing their chemistry.
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And all around
us you have to ask
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what song are we
hearing in our brains, Charles?
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Is it the song that
was created accretion?
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Is it the music that
was created accretion?
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Are we having songs in
our body that's changing
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our chemistry that necessarily
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wasn't meant to be there?
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You know, if I was,
you know, in the wars,
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you've heard these stories
about wars on the frontlines,
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you know, these guys who
are fighting in the frontlines.
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They play all these
dissonant hard sounding sounds
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because they know
it's just disrupted them.
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It made their
chemistry terrible.
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And yet you know how you
feel when you're at the beach,
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when you hear the
sounds of the water.
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When you hear a
bird in the morning,
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how that changes our chemistry.
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Now I'm not aware
of any scientific study
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that proves this, but you can do
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the own experiment yourself.
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Go out in nature
and listen to the birds.
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Listen to the water and
see how you feel chemically
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and then likewise go
out do an experiment,
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go to the middle of the
town, hear the honking horns,
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hear all the
blaring radios and then see
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how you feel after you do that.
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So I definitely think
that there is something to this
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that God want us to let
just know that the birds
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and all of these does
have a calming effect,
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can change your chemistry.
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You know, I have
talked to someone whose job
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is to do what you just said.
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Down in Florida
hospital, Orlando, Florida,
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wonderful
institution down there,
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there is a young lady whose
only job is music treatment,
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that's what she does.
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She goes around
to patient's rooms
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and she takes her guitar
and she goes into room and says,
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do you have any music
that you'd like to hear,
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any song that
you'd like to hear?
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And they'll say well, yes,
I like this song or that song
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and she'll have her
books there and she opens
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the book up and she
starts strumming that song
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with the guitar and sing it.
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And something amazing
happens to that patient.
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When that patient is
listening to this music
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and I think God put
birds up there to say,
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hey, there such
a thing as music.
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Right. When she
start strumming these songs
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and playing these songs,
the patients begun to relax.
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Their memories of their
childhood when that song
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was important to them
or events around the song
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flood their minds, their
blood pressure goes down.
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Their--their
heart rate goes down,
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this connection
with music with the past,
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with the gentle rhythm
of that song so infiltrates
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their hearts and
their minds that it actually
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brings healing into their lives.
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Could it be possible that
one of the reasons that God
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put birds up in those
trees during creation week
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and made those birds sing was
an illustration towards that,
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you know, what, you
need music in your life
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and you need the kind
of music that calms you.
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You think I'm on
the right track here?
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I think so, you
know, I think--we might not
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ever know the full
answer to this question
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till we get to
heaven, but it's something
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that is interesting
to talk about and we know
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what changes our
chemistry, music does.
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I'm thinking back
to some of the stories
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that I've read in
the Old Testament,
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you remember Saul? Yes, yes.
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Whenever he had some bad
days and he wasn't feeling good
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and he was down and depressed,
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he called David in to
make beautiful music for him
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and that seem to
change his chemistry.
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We also see that
David throughout the Psalms,
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a song after song after
song some about animals,
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some about birds
all of this, you know,
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not in way to praise God
but are also in that process
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of praising God
his chemistry changes.
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So maybe Charles,
that there is something
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there's a praise
component too to these birds
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chirping and
singing their songs.
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Maybe not only are
they helping our chemistry,
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but their singing
praises to the creator
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and maybe in
doing that these praise
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that we're in through songs,
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maybe that's
changing our chemistry too.
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We know that all
beings were made to praise.
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Yes. We know
that. It's been told.
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Maybe our chemistry
was designed to praise
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and one of these ways we
praise is through the songs
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of the birds and maybe
the birds are teaching us
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to sing what song we have.
Now I can't chirp like this.
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I can chirp a few songs,
but you know I can't sing.
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Yes. And I can't
try to play instrument.
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Well, maybe
that's our equivalent
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to the birds praising God.
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We just never know, but
it's interesting to think about.
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But maybe this--
this God's chants,
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hey, listen all
creation praises me.
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I want my creation to
praise me not only in the songs
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they sing from their
heart but in their minds,
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to give this
constant praise and help up
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with their
chemistry when we praise.
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And want to be great if I
could do the study that said,
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you know, if you sing a song,
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a joyful song to the
Lord like David did to Saul,
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if you do this, if you
sing the way the angel sing
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when Christ came to this earth,
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if you up with the joyful
song when you're feeling bad
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or discouraged
or when you're sick,
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if I could measure all
these parameters of disease,
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if I could
measure what's happening
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the tumors in the body,
and inflammation in the body,
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and blood pressure,
and all of these other
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digestive systems,
what's happening with iritis,
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if I could measure
people that did that
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in studies, I'm positive.
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I would see a
positive chemical reaction
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and Florida
hospitals proving it.
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Yeah, I can--I can also
provide that study for you.
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You know, Dr.
Marcum, every once in a while
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I have go into Washington,
D.C. I live in West Virginia
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and I have to go
to Washington, D.C.
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and I have to drive
down the infamous 270,--
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Oh, boy. Which is the freeway
that heads in that direction.
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And the closer I
get to Washington D.C.
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I just reach out and
I turn my dial to well,
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National Public Radio,
it's--that's my choice.
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National Public
Radio plays this beautiful
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classical music and I can
just, as I'm driving along
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and I'm feeling the
pressure of all the big glass,
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and cement building, and
all the cars zooming around,
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and all the noise of the city.
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The closer and
closer I get to the city
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the more I turn up
that National Public Radio
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classical music and I
can feel it happening in me.
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I can feel that
relaxing even in this
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very, very busy, noisy place.
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Maybe God put birds
in the trees to remind us
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that it is time for
us to switch the channels
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of what's playing in our minds,
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maybe it's time for
God to say you know,
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maybe we need to turn
down the electric guitar
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and the drum
machine, maybe you need to
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bring up the violin, and
the organ, and the cello.
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Maybe it's time
for us to start finding
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healing music in our lives.
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And when I go into
a forest and I hear
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the bird singing,
it's very much like that.
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It's like tuning on NPR.
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It's like tuning
on the classical music
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because there is a
very definite change
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in my mind and in my heart.
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And I just invite you
listen and want you to do that
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when you are in a stressful
situation you're at home
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or you're driving
your car, turn the radio on
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find the quite station, listen
to 3ABN radio there you go.
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Listen to this beautiful music.
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You will find that
something happens in you.
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Something changes in you.
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It kind of reminds me
of the fact that God wants
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to put a song in
our heart, a new song.
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We've been
listening to the wrong music.
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We've been listening
to music that is actually
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detrimental to our health.
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It's time for us to
start listening to the song
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of the birds and
God's representation
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song of the birds in
the beautiful instruments
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He's made available
to us on this earth.
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Yeah, and if you think
about it even more, Charles,
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you know, we
talk about a new song.
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But, you know, the
evil one has counterfeits
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for everything that's good.
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Absolutely. You
know, we think you know
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the birds and all
those beautiful songs
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that helping our
chemistry, we've talked about
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all the changes in our
chemistry whether it be water,
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whether it be rest,
whether it be the food we eat
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all these have
chemical reactions.
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Well, I'm suggesting today
that the sounds we have in,
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the music the song
that's in our heart
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changes our chemical
reactions and unfortunately
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what has the evil one
been throwing out there,
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can all of these bad
sounds that we're getting
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whether it'd be a honking
horns or some other things
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we hear on the radio
or some of the mean words.
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Yeah. Can all of this
be damaging our chemistry
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and maybe we need to
get back to listening
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to the birds, to the--
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Interesting point, interesting
point about the words there.
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We say, okay, let's
not listen to certain music
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because it has evil words.
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I would like to suggest
that you could take perfectly
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good words and if you put
it with the wrong kind of music
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that--that detrimental
effect would still happen
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even though the
words are beyond reproach.
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Yeah, and you know
we can talk about music
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and
appropriateness of music a lot.
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Yes. But I still think what--
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But there's a change
that takes place in the body.
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Yeah, yeah,
there's a chemical change.
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You can't argue about that.
No, we can't argue about that.
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And I really think that
it's in that relationship
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with the heavenly
father, that He brings us to
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in understanding of the
songs He wants us to play
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in our hearts and also the songs
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that He wants us to listen to.
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And it might be
like the food we eat.
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He takes us along slowly
and brings us along slowly.
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It might be, He teaches
us how to drink more water
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that He takes us
so along at His speed
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and you know not all
of these are like either,
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and it might be
that we have good
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better best plan in our lives.
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But it's God living
in us that changes us.
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Anytime we try to do
something in ourselves
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that's for the wrong reasons.
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I have some people, Charles,
they are the healthiest people
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and they workout all the time
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and they eat all the right foods
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and they're all buff
and strong and I wish
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I was buff and strong
like that, but I'm not.
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God hasn't taken me there.
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But, you know, what,
they do it not necessarily
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for the glory of God
because He's changing them
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they do it for themselves.
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They're singing the wrong song.
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They're doing
it for selfishness.
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Even though they do
the things right healthy,
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they're doing the right
things for the wrong reasons.
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It's not, you know,
we want to do things
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for the right reasons and
that's why we have to have
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a change a heart and
maybe when we get back to
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talking about the birds
and listening to their songs,
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maybe God's giving us
a lesson in relationships
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to music and the songs we hear.
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And it's just another example
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how everything
changes the chemistry.
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How important is, Dr.
Marcum, for us to use God
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as the template to use
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His laws to form our lives?
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It's very obvious
that satan tries to find
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counterfeits for
everything that God did.
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Everything. If God says
okay, you need to have air
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I'm gonna pollute the air.
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If God says, I'm
gonna-- you need water,
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I'm gonna make
sure that you drink pop.
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I'm gonna put coffee out there.
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If God says, you
know, I want you to eat
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this good food I'm
gonna put chemicals in it.
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I'm gonna put all
this bad stuff in that.
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I'm gonna have you
eat animals instead of
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the plants that I have there.
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If God said to us to
walk through the woods
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and enjoy the beautiful,
beautiful song of the birds,
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satan is gonna make sure that
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there is a counterfeit there.
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That is so true, Charles.
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You know, I want to
invite our viewers today
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to listen for the new
song that God has for us.
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When you walk through the woods
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you hear the bird singing.
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Let it reminds you
that God wants to put
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a new tune in your heart,
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that God wants you
to start a new song,
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a song of praise for Him,
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a song that does not
detract and make you ill,
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but a song that actually brings
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healing into your heart.
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That's how important
those birds were in creation.
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That's how
important they are today.
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