Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00011A
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:02 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:17 We all know the lie 00:18 that Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden. 00:20 Shame on Eve for believing it. 00:23 Shame on many of us 00:25 for believing it still. Stay tuned. 00:29 I'm Dr James Marcum. 00:31 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:35 You want solutions to your healthcare problem. 00:38 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:40 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:45 So here is Eve wandering through the Garden of Eden 00:49 enjoying the beauty of the plants, 00:50 frolicking with the animals 00:52 and eating the various fruit of the trees. 00:54 Then she comes to one particular tree 00:56 that contains more than fruit. 00:59 There among the branches is a talking serpent. 01:02 And that serpent says something to Eve 01:04 that many of us believe to this day. 01:07 Dr Marcum, continue the story for us. 01:09 Well, Charles, if I remember the story correctly. 01:12 That serpent tells Eve, "You shall not die. 01:17 It doesn't matter what you eat. 01:18 It doesn't matter what you think. 01:21 You can be God." 01:23 Those are some powerful words. And if you think what--you know, 01:27 let's bring this back to our health. 01:28 You know, we're talking about our health. 01:30 We set up this perfect plan 01:32 that was given to us at creation. 01:35 A perfect plan that was given to us. 01:37 And all of a sudden, this plan is disrupted, 01:41 disrupted terribly. Yes. 01:43 Throws in this doubt, 01:44 throws in this whole conundrum here. 01:46 We have a major problem. 01:47 And this is so important for us today, 01:50 because if we don't understand this conflict 01:52 and what happened here, 01:53 this can cause stress to our lives, 01:55 because we're gonna see that very shortly in the story 01:58 this caused a lot of stress to Eve. 02:02 All of a sudden everything she thought 02:03 about this loving God changed. 02:06 Her body was in perfect harmony with the world. 02:09 And all of a sudden, her brain first began to change. 02:12 That's where the physiologic change happens. 02:14 It starts in the brain and the brain triggers 02:17 this cascade of reactions throughout the body. 02:20 So all of a sudden her perfect brain 02:22 now has something wrong with it. Yeah. 02:23 There're stress involved. 02:25 So Eve--Eve all of a sudden has this 02:27 and she doesn't know what to do with it. 02:29 She's not used to this thought, Charles. 02:30 And if Satan tells Eve, "You will not surely die." 02:35 What else has God said to them that can't be trusted? 02:38 What else has God done? 02:40 Is it really not necessary that I have the fresh air, 02:42 the sunshine, the good food, the relationship, the love? 02:45 Are all of these things in doubt now because 02:48 the devil just said that God lies on this one thing, 02:51 He probably is not telling the truth and everything else? 02:54 Exactly, and this whole perfect health plan 02:57 that was given to us at creation, 02:58 there is now doubts about it. Yeah. 03:00 And the evil one has been plugging doubts in 03:04 ever since that time. 03:06 And this doubt and this damage to her brain 03:08 that's happened is part of the problem, 03:10 but all the result and stress on our bodies 03:12 and our habits that's the second part. 03:14 So if we look at our modern healthcare system, 03:17 we don't really talk about the ultimate cause of it, 03:19 we deal with the downhill effects. 03:22 We deal with the effects of stress, 03:23 with the effects of not living well, 03:25 with the effects of bad genetics. 03:27 With all of the chemistry that comes from stress, 03:29 the heart attack, the strokes, the bad lifestyle, 03:32 not sleeping well at night, the high blood pressure. 03:34 So we deal with that level, 03:36 but the real level we should be dealing with 03:38 in solving this and dealing with 03:40 the ultimate prescription is way up here. 03:42 What happened at the beginning 03:43 and how can I keep that from happening to me? 03:47 How do I know that that won't happen to me? Yes. 03:50 So what I'm hearing you say 03:52 and what I am finding in here, 03:53 and this is--this is the kind of disturbing 03:55 is that many of us are continuing to believe that. 04:00 When we think that what we eat doesn't matter. 04:03 When we think that what we put into our brains doesn't matter. 04:06 When we think of what we put into our mouth and our ears. 04:10 When we allow this world 04:11 and the sin of this world to infiltrate our lives, 04:14 for some reason we don't think it matters. 04:17 We think we can get away with it. 04:19 We will not surely die. 04:21 That lie just continues, and continues, and continues. 04:25 Dr Marcum, when Adam and Eve realized this 04:29 and they were had to be removed from the garden. 04:31 I've always looked upon that as a splitting of paths. 04:37 Where we had one path that God says, 04:39 "Okay, here is my path. 04:41 If you're gonna go on my path 04:43 you're gonna enjoy certain benefits of this path, 04:45 and this path leads to eternal life. 04:48 If you go on this path, I can't walk with you anymore." 04:53 You know that after that, that Sabbath 04:55 when they walked with God and then sin entered. 05:00 God couldn't walk with them anymore. 05:01 He just-- it was a different path. 05:04 God didn't wanna go with it. Absolutely. 05:06 And so I am saying help us here, 05:09 we are--we are off the path. 05:11 We are not where we should be. 05:13 Is there any chance of us 05:15 getting back on the right path and how do we do that? 05:18 Absolutely, there's a great chance 05:20 of getting back on the path. 05:21 And our loving God wants us to be on the right path. 05:24 And one of the first parts we start is, of course, 05:27 we've talked about that relationship. Yes. 05:29 Also many of us here don't feel that we have value in our lives. 05:33 You know, earth, you know, the earth 05:35 and everything in it tosses us around, 05:38 and we think that we don't have little value to God. 05:40 And send us through the spirit. Yeah. 05:41 I'm--I got a $10 bill here, Charles. 05:44 And I could give it to you if I wanted to. Thank you. 05:46 It's $10. I'm gonna go over this a little bit. 05:49 This has Alexander Hamilton on this $10 bill. 05:52 Many of us are like this $10 bill in our lives, 05:55 you know, you know, this is how much we're worth. 05:58 You know, let's say $10, but to God, you know, 06:00 we're worth the same amount no matter what. Yes. 06:02 Let's say that life, and what happens in our brains 06:05 and all the stress that's put on us in our value 06:08 that we see ourselves as not very valuable, okay. 06:11 And all of a sudden, you know, 06:13 we get all crunched up like this, okay. 06:16 And life gives us some curve balls. 06:17 We don't think the right things about God. 06:19 And we look like this. 06:21 Well, how much are we still worth? 06:23 It's still $10. It's still $10. 06:25 Yes. And let's say that the devil--Oh I like that. 06:28 The devil, you know, works on our brain and says, 06:30 "We can be God and we don't trust God." 06:32 And we have all the stress chemicals 06:34 and we get on the wrong path. Yes. 06:36 Let's say we get on that wrong path. 06:38 And we're down on that path 06:39 and all sorts of bad things happen. 06:41 We're down on the ground and the world stomps on us 06:44 and crushes us, and makes us all ugly. 06:47 And we look at that and we say, 06:49 "Wow! That is-- that's really been damaged. 06:52 It's not worth a thing." 06:54 But to the Creator how much is that so worth? 06:57 That is still $10. I love this. 06:59 That is still $10 no matter what happens in life, 07:02 you still have value. Yeah. 07:04 Even if you're on the wrong path you have value. 07:09 Even if you do have misconceptions about God, 07:11 you still have values. 07:13 And no matter what you're still worth $10 to Him. Yeah. 07:16 You're still worth-- you're still precious 07:18 and He still loves you even if you're not walking 07:20 in a relationship with Him. Yes, yes. 07:22 And even though you've been smashed, 07:24 and crumpled, and damaged, and you might not think 07:27 you're worth anything 07:28 He still thinks you're worth something. 07:30 Even if your health is damaged, 07:31 you have cancer, you have heart attacks, 07:34 you have diabetes, you are overweight. 07:35 You feel like you can't do anything. 07:37 Healthwise, you are falling apart. 07:39 The doctors can't fix you. 07:41 You're on ten medications. Life is terrible. 07:44 Your mind is polluted by these thoughts 07:47 that started at creation. Yes. 07:49 That we can't be God which we cannot be God. 07:53 Despite all of this we are still worth the same amount to God, 07:56 and He's gonna keep loving us and reaching us 07:59 even when we're on the wrong health path. Yes, yes. 08:01 And all we have to do is get back on that path 08:06 'cause we're still worth the same amount to Him. 08:08 Now we might be damaged, okay. 08:11 All of these thoughts that Eve had damaged her, 08:13 it damaged her chemistry, it damaged her brain, 08:15 it damaged her physiology. 08:17 When we are on--now we've talked about this before. 08:20 When we're not with our Creator. We were made to be with Him. 08:23 We were made to be on this path of health. 08:25 When we're not on that path, bad things happen. 08:29 That doesn't mean that God doesn't love us. 08:30 That doesn't mean God's doing them to us. 08:33 But bad things happen in our health 08:35 and when we get back on this path, 08:36 we can start making good decisions 08:38 'cause we're always worth the same amount. 08:40 So no matter where you're at right now, 08:42 what we can do is we can get on that path. 08:45 And that's why that relationship 08:46 is the ultimate prescription 'cause that's gonna bring 08:49 our mind back where it needs to go. 08:51 And that's the main problem that started at the beginning. 08:53 If we can understand the cause, we can fix the problem. 08:58 We just don't wanna treat symptoms, 09:00 we have to get to the cause, 09:01 and the real cause happened long, longtime ago 09:04 when our minds we started talking we can be God. 09:07 There's a theory out there called pantheism. Yes. 09:09 We can be God. 09:11 We can be whatever, you know, we are God. 09:13 All of us together are God. 09:14 We can worship ourselves. Yes, yes. 09:16 But that's not the way we were designed to be. 09:18 And when we follow this light of misconception 09:21 we're still worth $10. Yeah. 09:23 But we become crumpled and torn up, 09:25 and inside we don't feel like we have worth. 09:29 Do you mean to tell me that a lot of the bad things 09:32 that happened to us 09:34 are the result of the path we're on, 09:36 it's not God punishing us, it's not God zapping us, 09:39 it's not God saying, "Look how awful you are. 09:42 Look what you've done to yourself. 09:43 I don't love you anymore. 09:45 You deserve everything you could." No. 09:46 That's not what's going on? It's just the path. 09:48 Exactly, our worth is still there. 09:51 It's just the path, the choices we make. 09:54 Our ancestors made these choices. 09:56 We make these choices everyday. 09:58 We've talked about all this as we make these bad choices 10:00 and more stresses on our body. 10:03 And bad thing start to happen, Charles. 10:05 And God doesn't want bad things to happen to us. 10:07 He wants us to be alive and healthy. 10:09 We're still valuable to Him, always valuable. 10:11 He's always reaching out to us. 10:13 He wants us to be in this relationship 10:15 which changes our chemistry. 10:16 A relationship that we were designed 10:18 to have for optimal health. 10:20 And I'm challenging people 10:21 if we don't have this relationship in our lives, 10:24 we cannot have health and healing. 10:26 Oh sure we might have things sticks for a while, 10:28 but we can't have ultimate healing. 10:30 So to have optimal health the way we were designed 10:33 not only do we have to have 10:35 do all these things we've talked about, 10:36 but we have to have that relationship 10:38 which includes a correct understanding 10:41 about who God really is. 10:42 Now I'm gonna reach down here. 10:44 I'm gonna do something that God does, okay? 10:47 God reaches down from heaven 10:50 and He picks up this crumpled, dirty, 10:54 stepped on, nobody loves it, 10:57 nobody can stand it, us. Right. 11:01 And He takes it and He very slowly 11:05 and lovingly begins to open it up. 11:13 And there we are. The value is seen. 11:17 We're crumpled. We're dirty. 11:20 But God's loving hands can restore the beauty. 11:24 Not the value that's already there. 11:26 Right, the value is there. 11:27 But that's what so cool about health. 11:29 Health can help us restore 11:30 some of the beauty of our thoughts, 11:32 some of the beauty of our-- 11:34 when you look at a deceased body, 11:36 it looks very different from health body-- 11:37 healthy body, right? Exactly. Yeah. 11:39 So God through His love and through His health plan 11:42 that He made available to us in Eden can help us restore 11:46 some--some of the glory that we had in Eden. 11:50 And that's a very loving God that does that. 11:51 But the value is always there. A value is always there. 11:54 `And He's always wanting to but it's our decision 11:56 to enter into this relationship which changes our chemistry 12:00 which is a part of our healing process. Yeah. 12:02 We're not talking about that 12:04 like we should in today's society. 12:06 This is what we should be focusing on 12:08 at the foremost of all healing encounters. 12:11 We shouldn't start with, 12:12 "Oh you should exercise more. You should eat better. 12:15 We should take this medicine or have this procedure." 12:18 We should start with that relationship 12:21 with the ultimate physician who can-- 12:25 and let us see our value, so we can make these changes. 12:27 So we can see the power in our lives. 12:29 So as we learn to love God 12:32 and God leads us into His path. 12:35 And in His path is healing. 12:37 And in His path are the ways of healing 12:40 and the tools for healing, 12:42 we can slowly but surely regain 12:44 some of that former glory. 12:45 You know, I love this illustration. 12:48 I've never heard you say this before. 12:49 This is a wonderful illustration 12:50 and I thank you for the $10. Charles, that's good. 12:53 You know, I think one of the biggest lies 12:55 that the devil has perpetrated on us 12:58 and continues to do so. 13:02 We're not worth 10 bucks. Yeah. 13:03 We're not worth anything. 13:05 We are that crumpled bill on the ground 13:08 and we will always be there. 13:09 That's the way we're gonna always be. Right. 13:11 But through the process-- 13:14 through the process of loving God 13:16 and allowing God to love us, 13:18 through the process of getting back on the right path, 13:21 we can prove that devil dead wrong. 13:25 And that is the beauty of health, 13:28 because every time we feel good, 13:30 every time we fight a disease, 13:32 every time we overcome something, 13:34 overtime--every time we lose weight, 13:36 every time we get off medication, 13:38 every time we make positive changes in our lives, 13:41 we're saying to the devil, "You're a liar! You're a liar! 13:44 You were wrong in Eden and you're wrong now." 13:47 And you know what being on that path 13:49 is what gives us the power. Yes. 13:51 You know, and plugging into the ultimate physician 13:54 everyday that's where we get our power to do all this. 13:57 And if we do the things for the right reason, 13:59 because we're in this relationship 14:01 we're on the right path, 14:02 we're heading in the right direction. 14:04 We are worth something. 14:05 We will feel that we are worth something. 14:07 And all of these damaging things 14:09 that's happened to our brain that's out there in the world, 14:11 we can start dealing with that from a position of love 14:15 and position from being in the right place 14:17 the right time with the right great physician. 14:19 Oh, my, beautiful thoughts. Okay. 14:21 We're gonna take a short break 14:22 and when we come back questions that have been sent in 14:24 to the heartwiseministries.org website. 14:26 So stay right where you are. |
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