Participants: James Marcum, Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00005A
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:02 designed to promote good health and is not intended 00:05 to take the place of 00:06 personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own 00:12 conclusions about the information presented. 00:17 Birds and fish God's edition to our world 00:21 on day five of creation week. 00:23 Where do they fit into God's health plan? 00:26 The answer may surprise you. Stay tuned. 00:31 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:33 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:36 You want solutions to your health care problems. 00:39 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:42 Well, you're about to be given the ultimate prescription. 00:47 I'm gonna go out in limp here and suggest 00:49 that birds and fish weren't brought into existence 00:52 so that we could have more variety in our meals. 00:54 What did God have in mind? 00:56 Dr. Marcum, I put that question to you. Why birds? 01:00 You know, Charles, this is such 01:03 a challenging question, why birds? Why? 01:07 What do we talk about this at health program? 01:09 What's it gonna with heart? 01:10 What's it have to do with heart attacks? 01:11 What's it have to do with cancer? 01:13 What's it have to do with arthritis? 01:14 What's it have to do about the way I feel? 01:17 And yet if we follow God's perfect plan 01:20 there must be a reason. 01:22 Yes. So I wanna explore that a little bit. 01:24 You know, one of the things 01:25 that I like to hear is birds sing. 01:28 They help us to appreciate songs and music. 01:32 You know, that changes the way we think about 01:34 everything when we have songs and alike. 01:36 When you hear a bird sing or you hear 01:38 a great piece of music we know that 01:41 that has a calming effect on the chemistry. 01:44 It helps settle people down. It helps them relax. 01:48 Likewise, when people hear blaring dissonant sounds 01:52 things start getting messed up and it starts 01:54 changing their chemistry. 01:55 And all around us you have to ask 01:58 what song are we hearing in our brains, Charles? 02:01 Is it the song that was created accretion? 02:04 Is it the music that was created accretion? 02:07 Are we having songs in our body that's changing 02:10 our chemistry that necessarily 02:11 wasn't meant to be there? 02:13 You know, if I was, you know, in the wars, 02:16 you've heard these stories about wars on the frontlines, 02:18 you know, these guys who are fighting in the frontlines. 02:21 They play all these dissonant hard sounding sounds 02:24 because they know it's just disrupted them. 02:25 It made their chemistry terrible. 02:28 And yet you know how you feel when you're at the beach, 02:31 when you hear the sounds of the water. 02:33 When you hear a bird in the morning, 02:35 how that changes our chemistry. 02:36 Now I'm not aware of any scientific study 02:39 that proves this, but you can do 02:41 the own experiment yourself. 02:42 Go out in nature and listen to the birds. 02:45 Listen to the water and see how you feel chemically 02:49 and then likewise go out do an experiment, 02:51 go to the middle of the town, hear the honking horns, 02:53 hear all the blaring radios and then see 02:55 how you feel after you do that. 02:57 So I definitely think that there is something to this 03:00 that God want us to let just know that the birds 03:02 and all of these does have a calming effect, 03:05 can change your chemistry. 03:06 You know, I have talked to someone whose job 03:10 is to do what you just said. 03:13 Down in Florida hospital, Orlando, Florida, 03:15 wonderful institution down there, 03:16 there is a young lady whose only job is music treatment, 03:22 that's what she does. 03:23 She goes around to patient's rooms 03:25 and she takes her guitar and she goes into room and says, 03:28 do you have any music that you'd like to hear, 03:30 any song that you'd like to hear? 03:32 And they'll say well, yes, I like this song or that song 03:34 and she'll have her books there and she opens 03:37 the book up and she starts strumming that song 03:39 with the guitar and sing it. 03:41 And something amazing happens to that patient. 03:45 When that patient is listening to this music 03:48 and I think God put birds up there to say, 03:51 hey, there such a thing as music. 03:52 Right. When she start strumming these songs 03:55 and playing these songs, the patients begun to relax. 03:59 Their memories of their childhood when that song 04:03 was important to them or events around the song 04:06 flood their minds, their blood pressure goes down. 04:10 Their--their heart rate goes down, 04:14 this connection with music with the past, 04:18 with the gentle rhythm of that song so infiltrates 04:24 their hearts and their minds that it actually 04:27 brings healing into their lives. 04:29 Could it be possible that one of the reasons that God 04:33 put birds up in those trees during creation week 04:37 and made those birds sing was an illustration towards that, 04:41 you know, what, you need music in your life 04:43 and you need the kind of music that calms you. 04:46 You think I'm on the right track here? 04:47 I think so, you know, I think--we might not 04:49 ever know the full answer to this question 04:51 till we get to heaven, but it's something 04:53 that is interesting to talk about and we know 04:56 what changes our chemistry, music does. 04:58 I'm thinking back to some of the stories 05:01 that I've read in the Old Testament, 05:03 you remember Saul? Yes, yes. 05:04 Whenever he had some bad days and he wasn't feeling good 05:08 and he was down and depressed, 05:09 he called David in to make beautiful music for him 05:13 and that seem to change his chemistry. 05:16 We also see that David throughout the Psalms, 05:19 a song after song after song some about animals, 05:23 some about birds all of this, you know, 05:25 not in way to praise God but are also in that process 05:27 of praising God his chemistry changes. 05:30 So maybe Charles, that there is something 05:32 there's a praise component too to these birds 05:35 chirping and singing their songs. 05:37 Maybe not only are they helping our chemistry, 05:39 but their singing praises to the creator 05:41 and maybe in doing that these praise 05:43 that we're in through songs, 05:45 maybe that's changing our chemistry too. 05:47 We know that all beings were made to praise. 05:50 Yes. We know that. It's been told. 05:52 Maybe our chemistry was designed to praise 05:55 and one of these ways we praise is through the songs 05:57 of the birds and maybe the birds are teaching us 06:00 to sing what song we have. Now I can't chirp like this. 06:03 I can chirp a few songs, but you know I can't sing. 06:06 Yes. And I can't try to play instrument. 06:09 Well, maybe that's our equivalent 06:10 to the birds praising God. 06:12 We just never know, but it's interesting to think about. 06:15 But maybe this-- this God's chants, 06:17 hey, listen all creation praises me. 06:19 I want my creation to praise me not only in the songs 06:22 they sing from their heart but in their minds, 06:25 to give this constant praise and help up 06:27 with their chemistry when we praise. 06:29 And want to be great if I could do the study that said, 06:31 you know, if you sing a song, 06:33 a joyful song to the Lord like David did to Saul, 06:36 if you do this, if you sing the way the angel sing 06:38 when Christ came to this earth, 06:40 if you up with the joyful song when you're feeling bad 06:43 or discouraged or when you're sick, 06:45 if I could measure all these parameters of disease, 06:48 if I could measure what's happening 06:50 the tumors in the body, and inflammation in the body, 06:53 and blood pressure, and all of these other 06:55 digestive systems, what's happening with iritis, 06:59 if I could measure people that did that 07:00 in studies, I'm positive. 07:03 I would see a positive chemical reaction 07:05 and Florida hospitals proving it. 07:07 Yeah, I can--I can also provide that study for you. 07:09 You know, Dr. Marcum, every once in a while 07:12 I have go into Washington, D.C. I live in West Virginia 07:15 and I have to go to Washington, D.C. 07:16 and I have to drive down the infamous 270,-- 07:19 Oh, boy. Which is the freeway that heads in that direction. 07:22 And the closer I get to Washington D.C. 07:25 I just reach out and I turn my dial to well, 07:31 National Public Radio, it's--that's my choice. 07:33 National Public Radio plays this beautiful 07:36 classical music and I can just, as I'm driving along 07:39 and I'm feeling the pressure of all the big glass, 07:42 and cement building, and all the cars zooming around, 07:45 and all the noise of the city. 07:47 The closer and closer I get to the city 07:48 the more I turn up that National Public Radio 07:51 classical music and I can feel it happening in me. 07:55 I can feel that relaxing even in this 08:00 very, very busy, noisy place. 08:05 Maybe God put birds in the trees to remind us 08:11 that it is time for us to switch the channels 08:15 of what's playing in our minds, 08:17 maybe it's time for God to say you know, 08:19 maybe we need to turn down the electric guitar 08:23 and the drum machine, maybe you need to 08:25 bring up the violin, and the organ, and the cello. 08:30 Maybe it's time for us to start finding 08:32 healing music in our lives. 08:35 And when I go into a forest and I hear 08:38 the bird singing, it's very much like that. 08:41 It's like tuning on NPR. 08:42 It's like tuning on the classical music 08:44 because there is a very definite change 08:47 in my mind and in my heart. 08:50 And I just invite you listen and want you to do that 08:53 when you are in a stressful situation you're at home 08:56 or you're driving your car, turn the radio on 08:59 find the quite station, listen to 3ABN radio there you go. 09:04 Listen to this beautiful music. 09:06 You will find that something happens in you. 09:09 Something changes in you. 09:12 It kind of reminds me of the fact that God wants 09:16 to put a song in our heart, a new song. 09:19 We've been listening to the wrong music. 09:21 We've been listening to music that is actually 09:24 detrimental to our health. 09:26 It's time for us to start listening to the song 09:29 of the birds and God's representation 09:31 song of the birds in the beautiful instruments 09:33 He's made available to us on this earth. 09:34 Yeah, and if you think about it even more, Charles, 09:37 you know, we talk about a new song. 09:40 But, you know, the evil one has counterfeits 09:42 for everything that's good. 09:43 Absolutely. You know, we think you know 09:45 the birds and all those beautiful songs 09:47 that helping our chemistry, we've talked about 09:49 all the changes in our chemistry whether it be water, 09:52 whether it be rest, whether it be the food we eat 09:56 all these have chemical reactions. 09:58 Well, I'm suggesting today that the sounds we have in, 10:01 the music the song that's in our heart 10:04 changes our chemical reactions and unfortunately 10:07 what has the evil one been throwing out there, 10:09 can all of these bad sounds that we're getting 10:12 whether it'd be a honking horns or some other things 10:14 we hear on the radio or some of the mean words. 10:16 Yeah. Can all of this be damaging our chemistry 10:19 and maybe we need to get back to listening 10:21 to the birds, to the-- 10:23 Interesting point, interesting point about the words there. 10:26 We say, okay, let's not listen to certain music 10:28 because it has evil words. 10:31 I would like to suggest that you could take perfectly 10:34 good words and if you put it with the wrong kind of music 10:40 that--that detrimental effect would still happen 10:43 even though the words are beyond reproach. 10:46 Yeah, and you know we can talk about music 10:48 and appropriateness of music a lot. 10:51 Yes. But I still think what-- 10:53 But there's a change that takes place in the body. 10:54 Yeah, yeah, there's a chemical change. 10:55 You can't argue about that. No, we can't argue about that. 10:57 And I really think that it's in that relationship 11:00 with the heavenly father, that He brings us to 11:03 in understanding of the songs He wants us to play 11:06 in our hearts and also the songs 11:08 that He wants us to listen to. 11:10 And it might be like the food we eat. 11:12 He takes us along slowly and brings us along slowly. 11:15 It might be, He teaches us how to drink more water 11:18 that He takes us so along at His speed 11:20 and you know not all of these are like either, 11:22 and it might be that we have good 11:24 better best plan in our lives. 11:26 But it's God living in us that changes us. 11:29 Anytime we try to do something in ourselves 11:32 that's for the wrong reasons. 11:33 I have some people, Charles, they are the healthiest people 11:36 and they workout all the time 11:38 and they eat all the right foods 11:39 and they're all buff and strong and I wish 11:41 I was buff and strong like that, but I'm not. 11:43 God hasn't taken me there. 11:44 But, you know, what, they do it not necessarily 11:47 for the glory of God because He's changing them 11:49 they do it for themselves. 11:51 They're singing the wrong song. 11:52 They're doing it for selfishness. 11:53 Even though they do the things right healthy, 11:55 they're doing the right things for the wrong reasons. 11:58 It's not, you know, we want to do things 12:00 for the right reasons and that's why we have to have 12:02 a change a heart and maybe when we get back to 12:05 talking about the birds and listening to their songs, 12:07 maybe God's giving us a lesson in relationships 12:11 to music and the songs we hear. 12:13 And it's just another example 12:15 how everything changes the chemistry. 12:17 How important is, Dr. Marcum, for us to use God 12:21 as the template to use 12:24 His laws to form our lives? 12:29 It's very obvious that satan tries to find 12:33 counterfeits for everything that God did. 12:35 Everything. If God says okay, you need to have air 12:37 I'm gonna pollute the air. 12:38 If God says, I'm gonna-- you need water, 12:40 I'm gonna make sure that you drink pop. 12:42 I'm gonna put coffee out there. 12:43 If God says, you know, I want you to eat 12:45 this good food I'm gonna put chemicals in it. 12:47 I'm gonna put all this bad stuff in that. 12:49 I'm gonna have you eat animals instead of 12:50 the plants that I have there. 12:51 If God said to us to walk through the woods 12:56 and enjoy the beautiful, beautiful song of the birds, 13:00 satan is gonna make sure that 13:02 there is a counterfeit there. 13:05 That is so true, Charles. 13:06 You know, I want to invite our viewers today 13:10 to listen for the new song that God has for us. 13:14 When you walk through the woods 13:16 you hear the bird singing. 13:18 Let it reminds you that God wants to put 13:22 a new tune in your heart, 13:24 that God wants you to start a new song, 13:28 a song of praise for Him, 13:30 a song that does not detract and make you ill, 13:33 but a song that actually brings 13:35 healing into your heart. 13:36 That's how important those birds were in creation. 13:39 That's how important they are today. |
Revised 2014-12-17