The following program
presents principles designed
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to promote good health
and is not intended to take
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the place 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
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their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Have you ever
wondered what those words
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really mean? Stay tuned.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested
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in discovering the reason why?
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You want solutions to
your healthcare problem.
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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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God built a rest cycle
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into everything you can get it.
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Even our hearts enjoy a minute
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rest period between beats.
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The problem is
that so many of us think
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that rest
really isn't necessary.
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You know who you are.
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When was the last
time you took a vacation?
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Trouble is our beating
hearts can take a real beating
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when we ignore
this law of health.
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Right, Dr. Marcum?
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Absolutely, Charles.
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And I love the way you
said how our hearts take--
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even the heart
itself takes rest.
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And we call that rest period.
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We call that diastole,
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that's the time
when the heart rests.
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It's not for really
long period of time.
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But as we discovered in looking
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at all these
treatments and all these laws
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that God's given us
because He loves us so much,
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there is a law of
rest that must be kept.
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And, you know, let us
give some examples here.
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You know in the old days
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before we had all
this modern technology
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in cardiovascular disease,
if someone had a heart attack
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or heart failure, we
used to bed rest him. Yeah.
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We used to say listen,
you rest, don't do anything.
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Let the body rest, let it heal.
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If you had a race
horse, Charles, okay?
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And you race that horse,
race after race after race,
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you would sooner or
later let that horse
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rest or you'll wear
it out. You have to.
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Exactly. If you broke
your arm throwing fastballs,
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you would let your arm rest.
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You would keep
throwing fastballs.
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If you talked all
the time, Charles,
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you would run out of
words sooner or later
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and you would have to rest. Yes.
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When we don't rest,
when we violate this law,
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even the Lord of the universe
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who didn't have
any health problems,
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He knew that He
designed us to rest. Yeah.
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Work six days,
have a rest cycle.
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The research is
just now understanding
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a little bit more
about this six day,
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you know, work
cycle then rest one day.
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But God knows a lot about it.
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I can't wait to talk to
Him about how this cycle
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was meant to be
because we know it's true.
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We have to believe
that if God did it,
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there was a reason
why he did it. Right.
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Six days on, one day off.
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We may not understand it now
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but it's got to be a
reason for being that way.
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Absolutely and if I had
the money to fund a study,
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what I would do is I would take
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may be 10,000 or 15,000 people
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and I would match
them up, perfect matches.
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And I would have one
that worked seven days a week
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that worked hard
all the time, busy 24x7,
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that watched TV, that
stayed up late at night,
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that never rested,
that kept go, go, go. Yeah.
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Got to work hard. Got to achieve
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the almighty dollar.
Got to stay busy. Yeah.
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And then I take another group
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that specifically
rested one day a week.
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Within that group, I
would like to have a group
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that would not
only rest one day,
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but would rest
and have another group
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within that
group rest and worship.
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Oh, my, okay.
And I'll teach them
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different ways of
worship. And then I would like
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to study a lot of
different parameters.
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Blood, pressure, heart rate,
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inflammation and disease rates,
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all these inflammatory stress
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related problems that we have.
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And I would like to
study those different groups
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and see who had
the best chemistry
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at the end of the period.
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I think, based on
everything I know,
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I know what the
results would be.
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Yes, you would.
It's inherently logical.
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And I think that
study will be done someday
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and we'll be able to
prescribe a weekly rest
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for people as well as
some of these other things
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that we prescribe.
Just like we give the people
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who have a
heart-attack a beta blocker,
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I would like to
give them a prescription
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for a day of rest
and add worship to that.
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So there is something remarkable
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about resting does.
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It gives our body a chance
to catch up a chance to heal.
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But not only
our bodies, Charles,
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our control centers
have a chance to rest.
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Our brains need rest time
to rejuvenate the neurons,
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the neural
pathways, we need downtime.
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You know, you
can't think all the time.
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You know, and we have
some literature behind this.
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We know that people
that are studying for test,
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the people that learn slowly
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and have rest times assimilate
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that better than people
that just study all the time.
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They cram for tests
that-- so we also know
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that this rest is
important for our brain
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and that brain is
our control center
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of the whole body. Yeah.
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So that rest is also important
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for our brain function,
which controls everything.
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So we are not only talking
about resting our muscles,
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we are also talking
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about resting our brain up here.
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You said something significant
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there that there is a rest,
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a Sabbath rest and the
Bible makes it very clear
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that God created a
rest day. Absolutely.
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Bible says that
God rested on that day.
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But then we have to say,
"Well, how did He do that?"
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What did Adam and
Eve do on that rest day?
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Yes, they rested but
there was something else
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significant that
happened on that day
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that I think
that we can replicate
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in our own lives
and we should replicate
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if we want to make sure
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we have that full
benefit of the rest.
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And as they
rested, but they also spent
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some time with God-- Yes.
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Is that really
important part of this?
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Well, you know, it
must be because God
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set it up at the beginning. Yes.
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And who are we to question that?
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We have got to start
believing in our own hearts
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and when God does something,
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there is a reason for it
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and that reason is good for us.
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Even though we can't always
explain it scientifically.
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Yeah. Now let's think
about the other thing,
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He said not to work.
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You know, that's a good thing
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but during that day,
they spent a special time
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where they had together,
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where they
worshiped and praised.
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They developed this
friendship even more.
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They had special time
to share with each other
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and to learn each other.
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And during this
time, I'm sure Adam and Eve
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learned about these principles
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that God set up the universe.
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They learned about love.
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They developed
love between the two.
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And as that love developed,
the chemistry got better.
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They helped understand this.
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But at the same time,
they always had that choice
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to love or not to love.
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And I think that
was important part
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about this rest.
And this was set up
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at the beginning
of time on earth. Yes.
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And God knew this was important,
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very important. Not
only for our brains,
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for our spiritual
life, for our relationship
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with the ultimate
physician as well as the ways
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to keep us healthy.
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Now likewise now
here we go again.
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You've heard this
before on previous shows,
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when we do what God says,
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our chemistry gets better. Yes.
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It improves
because that was God's way.
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But if we don't
do what God says,
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if we don't rest, if
we don't take that time
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to be with Him, if we don't take
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that special love
relationship time inherently,
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our chemistry gets worse. Yeah.
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And if I was the evil one,
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I would want to
take us away from rest.
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I would want us to
worship everything else.
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I would want us to
worship football games,
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and fancy houses,
and jobs, and internet.
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Worship everything
else but the true God
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and as I got away from truth,
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I would damage their chemistry
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so their brains
wouldn't work right.
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So they won't even be
able to think correctly.
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That reminds me of a
study on--there is a doctor
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at the
University of Pennsylvania
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that's doing studies on brains.
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And what he does, Charles,
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is he takes MRIs
and looks at brains,
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the metabolic
activity that's what MRIs do.
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And he has took some people
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and he had them worship
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for a short
period of time everyday
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and then he scanned their brains
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with this MRIs both
before and after worship
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at the
University of Pennsylvania.
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This is scientific study. Yeah.
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After a short
period of worship time,
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he demonstrated that
the front part of the brain,
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the part that
communicates with God,
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the thinking
part started to grow.
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So that part-- Physically grow?
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Yes, it started to grow. Wow.
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Become more developed.
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So he is proving that worship,
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just like God said,
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is developing the
front part of our brain,
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the good part of our brain
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where we communicate with God.
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So worship is a treatment
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for the
development of our brain.
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Conversely, when
we don't worship,
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when we don't rest,
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it stresses our
bodies including our brain,
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the stress part of our brain,
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the limbic system
and all those fancy parts
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become overly developed.
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We can't make
rational decisions.
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We think on that
part of our brain
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and the front part of our brain
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become smaller and less useful.
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We know--we see
this in literature.
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We see people that take drugs
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and a lot of other stressors,
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the part of the brain
that does the thinking gets--
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looks like cheddar
cheese sometimes. Yes.
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So this is some strong
data that what God said
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at the very beginning
when we take a day of rest,
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when we develop this worship
with Him on that day of rest,
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we have some
important chemical implications
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as well as love implications.
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So, Dr. Marcum,
could we safely say
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that if we are struggling
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with our relationship with God,
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if we are saying, "I can't seem
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to connect with Him, I
can't seem to get through
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and I can't seem to
find Him in my life."
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Is it possible that the reason
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is that we are not developing
that part of our brain
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where God communicates with us?
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And that the answer
for that is to develop
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that part of our brain.
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Don't wait for God
just to simply come
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busting in and make changes.
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We need to create a
change in our brain patterns
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where God can actually be part
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of our lives and
communicate with us.
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Charles, I'm
proud of you, you know?
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You're getting this good.
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Sometimes you
don't get my name right,
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but you're definitely
getting this right, Charles.
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You've got this and I'm so proud
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and I'm hoping our listeners
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and viewers get
this as well. Yes.
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Because as we
communicate with God,
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there's a text in the Bible,
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"Create in me a new heart.
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Create in me a new brain."
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How does this happen?
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It's from that relationship
with the Holy Spirit
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that trains our brains.
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So maybe the
things we used to like
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we don't like. Yes.
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Maybe the things that
we used to do no longer
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is fun for us to do.
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And we can only do that
power through the Holy Spirit.
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And that's why we want to talk
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about this as
treatment in this healing plan.
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And sometimes I feel
like we don't talk about,
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we talk about
all the fancy stuff,
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the treatments for cancer,
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we talk about the
blood pressure medicines,
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the blood thinners.
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We talk about how
important it is to exercise
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and eat all the right foods.
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Sometimes we do
that at the expense
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of everything else. Yes.
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But when we talk
about this relationship,
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the way that we get the power
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to do things for
the right reasons,
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to change our
brain, to grow our brain,
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to be a part our
brain, to change us,
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to be in us. That is the key.
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That is the key to
changing our chemistry.
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We do it for the right reasons.
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So that's why this day of rest,
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this worship is so important.
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And now we're
proving it scientifically.
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This isn't a bunch of theories
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that are just thrown out.
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This is something
you can take to the bank,
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it's true, you
can believe it. Yeah.
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And that's why I'm
trying to corporate
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into a treatment
plan this idea of rest
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and this idea of worship.
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And people worship
in many different ways.
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You know some
people worship in church.
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Some people worship in prayer.
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Some people
worship out in nature.
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You know the original
church was a garden. Yes.
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And I think I do my
best communing with God
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when I'm out in nature.
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I had one fellow,
he says he worships
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in a fishing boat, you
know? In a fishing boat?
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He worships in a
fishing boat. Okay, all right.
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But, you know, the
point is we connect with God,
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IHe connects with us
in that relationship.
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And that's the important thing
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and that's what we're
trying to get through.
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And I think God was telling us
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it's important for our physical,
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mental and spiritual
health to follow this law
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that He created the
universe to be run on.
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You know Dr. Marcum, one
of the most amazing things
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in my mind is a scene
that I like to go to often.
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And that is that scene
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on the seventh day of creation,
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when Adam and Eve
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were walking through the garden
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and the Lord joined them.
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And they were
enjoying the beauty,
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and they were seeing the birds,
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and they were hearing
the tinkle of the water,
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and the stream, and the
fish and everything was there.
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On that seventh day of creation,
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at that moment, everything they
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needed to be healthy
existed. It was right there.
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Nothing was missing.
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God's health plan was in place
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and complete at that moment.
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The further we get
away from that moment,
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from that health
plan, the sick we become.
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The closer we get
back to that moment,
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into that health plan, health
returns to us. Absolutely.
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We have a say on how healthy
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we are by following what
God has said and done for us.
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We'll be back in just
a minute so stay tuned.
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