Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00013A
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00:01 The following program presents
00:02 principles designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinion and ideas expressed are those of the speaker. 00:10 VIewers are encouraged to daw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:17 A few years back there was a popular song 00:19 that asked the musical question, 00:21 what's love got to do with it? 00:23 When it comes to health the answer is, everything. 00:26 Stay tuned. 00:28 I'm Dr James Marcum. 00:30 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:33 You want solutions to your healthcare problem. 00:36 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:39 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:46 Our show today might not sit too well 00:48 with some of our viewers. 00:50 We're going to reveal the incredible power of love 00:53 when it comes to health and healing. 00:55 But some out there may not feel 00:56 much like loving anything 00:58 or they insist that no one loves them. 01:01 Dr. Marcum, which is supposed to come first, love or health? 01:07 Well, Charles, I'm gonna come up here 01:09 and give you a hug. 01:11 Thank you, thank you, thank you. 01:12 And I'm gonna say love needs to come first. 01:14 Oh, very good. 01:15 I'm gonna say love needs to come first. 01:17 And as we talk about this most important prescription 01:21 for our bodies today, lot of people don't think 01:23 as love as a prescription or love as a treatment 01:26 but indeed it is. 01:27 Let's define, what do you think love is, Charles? 01:31 Well, it can be all kinds of things. 01:32 To me love is acceptance more than anything else. 01:35 You accept that person. 01:37 You see the faults but you say, 01:39 okay, I love them anyway. Okay. 01:41 So love is like overcoming the faults. 01:44 Am I on the right track? I think so. 01:46 There's so many people out there, 01:47 they're defining love, you know? 01:49 Love is based on relationships or, 01:51 you know, I love you so I'm giving you a gift. 01:53 Is it receiving gifts? 01:54 But a simple definition I like to use 01:58 is love is putting someone else's interest 02:01 above your own. Very good. 02:03 Or the opposite of selfishness. Yes. 02:06 Love is good for your chemistry, 02:07 good for your bodies, a treatment. 02:09 Then the opposite of that, selfishness is bad for the body. 02:12 It causes stress. It causes damages. 02:14 It causes disease. So we don't wanna be selfish. 02:17 We wanna have love based on the ultimate source of love 02:21 and that's in the Bible. God is love. 02:24 So I think to really understand love 02:26 you have to understand God 02:28 and have that relationship with Him. 02:29 And I think love is a process. 02:31 It goes on for a long period of time. 02:33 I don't think we ever have 02:34 a full understanding of what it is. 02:36 This is a principle that runs the whole universe. 02:39 We're based on love. 02:41 I mean we don't have that principle, right? 02:44 Our chemistry goes back, 02:45 way back at creation we talked about. Yes. 02:47 You know that love, when that love was destroyed 02:50 or that distrust entered, when there was doubts 02:52 about this love 02:53 then that's when the chemistry started going bad. 02:55 Stress occurred. We started seeing diseases. 02:58 We actually started to see death. 03:00 So, you know, we've talked about, 03:01 before about, these two paths, you know? 03:03 The path that God wants us on and the path that, 03:06 you know, other people choose. 03:08 And really love is essential theme to that. 03:11 Are you telling me that if we don't love, 03:17 if we have anger in our heart, 03:19 if we have resentment in our heart 03:22 that somehow we are going to be physically affected by that? 03:26 Absolutely, Charles, 03:27 and this is can damage our entire chemistry. 03:30 Let's give some examples, you know. 03:32 We've talked before about people 03:33 that have a sudden loss of a loved one, 03:35 that sudden loss of love, an acute problem. 03:38 But can you imagine, 03:39 we were designed to have love in our life. 03:41 We were design to feel it. 03:42 Everyone knows how good they feel when they have love, 03:45 when they have a dog to pet or someone to love 03:47 or kids or grandchildren. 03:50 That feeling that makes you feel 03:51 so warm inside was something that God gave to us. 03:55 But more than that God programmed us 03:57 to have--want to have that love relationship with Him. 04:00 Just so when we don't have this love for each other, 04:02 when we don't have this love for Him, 04:04 our chemistry is not like it should be 04:06 and then a stress cascade gets turned on 04:09 even though we don't know it. 04:10 And unfortunately in the world we live in 04:12 there's a lot of selfishness 04:14 which is the opposite of love. So we see the selfishness. 04:16 Well, you know, it's all about me, 04:18 it's what I can get, what I can have, you know? 04:20 I want to eat more, I want to make more money, 04:22 I want to have a bigger house, 04:23 I want to have it all, I want to work right, 04:24 I want to have a nice vacation, I don't want to serve others, 04:27 I want to serve myself. 04:29 And as we do this over a long period of time, 04:32 guess what happens. Our chemistry is damaged. 04:35 Our thoughts are damaged. 04:36 Love affects the way our brain works, Charles. 04:39 So if a person is sitting at home and is sick 04:43 and that person might have a headache 04:46 or might have an ache some place. 04:47 Or there's something going on inside that body 04:50 that is affecting them 04:51 and they're not feeling very good at all, 04:54 the answer maybe they don't have enough love in their life? 04:58 That's a part of the treatment. Wow. 05:00 Now my wife complaints to me whenever she get sick, 05:03 you know, I don't pay enough attention to her you know? 05:06 Not that I can do anything, you know? 05:08 It's usually a cold or something like that but she wants to be-- 05:10 But you're a doctor. She wants to be-- 05:12 Oh, I am sorry, you are sick, honey. 05:14 And I hope you feel better. 05:16 Let me bring you some soup and all those little things. 05:18 That be--of course, that's her love language. 05:20 And everyone has their love language. 05:22 But when I do that to her she gets better quicker. 05:26 I didn't prescribe an antibiotic or anything else. 05:28 And likewise when I don't do that 05:30 she stays sick longer. Wow, wow. 05:33 So this love treatment is very, very important. 05:36 And science is proving it over and over again. 05:39 And it just--it needs to be a part of every treatment plan 05:41 but what I want to focus on is all the, 05:44 just for a minute here, is all the ways 05:45 that we don't have love in our lives, you know? 05:48 We're supposed to find-- where do we--you know, 05:50 of course, we've identified that God is love 05:52 and that relationship leads to Him 05:53 and that changes us. Yes. 05:55 So, you know, we have to breathe everyday, 05:57 don't we, Charles? Absolutely. 05:58 Breathing is an automatic thing we do. 06:00 If we don't breathe, we die, okay. 06:02 Well, if love is the universal principle that guides the world, 06:06 if we don't love-- We're fighting a principle. 06:10 We're fighting a law. We die. 06:11 And we die. If we don't love we die. Yes. 06:13 It might not be right now but if we don't love, we die. 06:17 If we don't breath, we die. 06:18 If we don't drink water, we die, you know? 06:21 You see, where I'm going with this? I do. 06:23 Yes, if we don't love, we die. 06:25 It's just a matter of win. 06:26 Now if I was trying to destroy the world 06:28 I would take love out of the world. 06:30 I would make us love ourselves. 06:32 I would make us love ourselves so much 06:34 that we thought we were God. 06:37 We are God, we can do anything. 06:39 We can fix anything. We have modern medicine. 06:41 We have doctors who can make people well. 06:43 We might be able to cryopreserve people. 06:45 We can do it all ourselves. 06:47 This is sounding familiar 06:48 because that's exactly what the devil said to Eve 06:50 in the Garden of Eden. 06:52 You're not gonna die. Right. 06:54 You gonna live forever. You can be God. 06:55 History repeats itself, Charles. 06:58 And the same thing goes over and over. 07:00 It just changes a little bit. So we become selfish. 07:04 And all along it's been about who do we worship? 07:06 Do we worship and love the true God 07:08 or do we worship the false gods? 07:11 If we think back in the Garden of Eden, 07:12 there the serpent wanted us to worship us. 07:16 And throughout time you, know, 07:17 in Daniel did they worship the idol 07:19 or did they worship the true God? 07:22 In Christ's time, did they worship the true Christ 07:25 or the system that created Christ? There you go. 07:28 In our time what are we worshipping now? Technology. 07:32 Are we worshipping that? How about in our churches? 07:33 Are we worshipping the true God or we're worshipping the systems 07:37 that are set up there? 07:38 Are we worshipping man's invention of God 07:41 or are we worshipping God's revelation of Himself 07:44 in the scripture? Exactly. Wow. 07:47 And how do we sort through all this confusion 07:49 about this most valuable treatment for our body, love? 07:52 How do we sort through this when we recognize, 07:55 you know, we become like that we worship. 07:57 So whatever we worship enough, we're gonna become like that. 08:01 If we worship the God of love, 08:02 we're gonna be more like the God of love. 08:04 Not that we can ever reach that standing. 08:07 If we don't worship God, if we worship ourselves, 08:09 if we worship man, if we worship institutions, 08:12 guess what, we're gonna go down that road. 08:15 And if we don't have love in our life, 08:16 it eventually leads to this universal law, death. 08:19 Just like we quit breathing, we die. 08:24 Its sounds like you are telling me, Dr. James Marcum, 08:28 that we need to have a correct understanding 08:33 of who God is. Absolutely-- 08:35 Before we can actually love Him 08:37 because if we're loving what we think is God, 08:39 if we're loving someone else interpretation of God, 08:42 if we're loving God of a television program 08:45 or the God of a radio program or the God of a book 08:48 other than this one or the God of human invention, 08:52 we may feel love but we're not loving correctly. 08:56 And that false love is not gonna help us physically. 08:59 98% truth is still a lie. 09:02 Some people have a perception of God 09:04 that if I don't do everything right, 09:06 if I don't ask for forgiveness of every sin, 09:09 if I don't eat this way, if I don't act this way, 09:11 God's gonna destroy me and kill me, boom. 09:16 They're scared of God. This was never God's plan. 09:20 God wanted us to love Him, have a relationship with Him. 09:23 He didn't want us to fear. 09:24 Now when we're scared-- if I scare you again, Charles, 09:28 your chemistry is gonna change. 09:30 You're gonna make adrenaline and cortisol. 09:32 Your blood's gonna want to clot. 09:33 You're gonna start changing chemistry 09:35 that goes to fight--this, this-- you're gonna get ready to fight 09:37 'cause you are scared. 09:39 You have fear in your life 09:40 'cause you think I'm gonna zap you 09:41 and I'm bigger than you. Yes, you are. 09:43 But you look like you might be faster, okay? 09:46 But anyway, that fear that's out there 09:48 is damaging to the chemistry, okay? 09:51 Remember we talked about selfishness, 09:53 the opposite of love. Fear is not good to have. 09:56 Fear turns us stress-- because it's fight or flight, 09:59 'cause you're afraid that something bad is gonna happen 10:00 so your body turns on this fear chemistry. 10:03 This fear chemistry not only hurts our bodies 10:06 but if it's everyday, if we fear God, 10:09 if we fear work, if we fear anything, 10:11 if we fear-- if we're scared of anything, 10:13 it damages our brains. 10:15 Now that's sort of the most important organ in our body. 10:18 If our brains are damage by our concept of love, 10:21 our concept of God, because we fear 10:25 that's a hard thing to overcome. 10:26 The fear of chemistry turns on. 10:28 The limbic system, the amygdala, 10:30 the alarm systems are constantly going off. 10:33 The prefrontal lobe where we communicate with God, 10:35 where we think, becomes smaller. 10:38 It doesn't work as well. 10:39 We live in a constant state of fear. 10:40 We can't think right. 10:42 If we can't think right, we can't come to God right. 10:44 If I was the evil one I would want this to occur. 10:47 I would want us to be scared all the time. 10:49 I would want us to be selfish. 10:50 I would want to make it impossible find love. 10:52 I would want us think that we could fix 10:54 everything ourselves and deceive everyone. 10:57 That's why in medicine this is so important, 10:59 this concept of love. 11:01 And keep us away from selfishness. 11:03 Keep--remember this scripture in the Bible, 11:05 "Love casts out all-- Fear. 11:08 That's right, so only way we can get with this fear, 11:10 this damage to our brain, this damage to our chemistry 11:13 is to find out what love is. 11:15 So love is a treatment 'cause it casts out fear. 11:18 Fear damages our body. 11:19 So this cascade of events occurs 11:21 because we might be scared. 11:23 We might even be scared of the God that loves us 11:25 that we're trying to serve. We don't want that. 11:28 How many of us, how many of us think of God 11:32 as someone who says to us, "I created you, I love you, 11:40 I died for you, but if you don't love me in return 11:45 I will destroy you." Think about that. 11:49 How many of us have that line of thought? 11:52 That line of thought brings that fear 11:55 which you just talked about, Dr. Marcum. 11:57 That line of thought brings that fear. 11:59 We are loving God because we're afraid of Him. 12:02 We can't have a relationship. 12:03 We're loving God because we are afraid 12:05 of what he's gonna do to us. 12:06 We're loving God because we feel guilty all the time. 12:09 And we think that guilt is God's punishment to us. 12:12 We're loving God because we don't want to burn in hell. 12:16 We want to live in heaven. 12:17 We're loving God for the wrong reasons which means, 12:19 one of two things are happening. 12:22 Either we're loving wrong 12:25 or we have the wrong image of God. Correct. 12:29 My, my, so many things to think about, 12:31 here, on this program. 12:32 We want to make sure that our image of God is correct. 12:37 We don't want to believe the lie 12:39 that Satan told in the Garden of Eden. 12:41 We don't want to believe 12:42 what other people have said about God, 12:44 what even religions have said about God, 12:46 what governments have said about God. 12:48 We want to believe what God says about God. 12:52 And you know where you find that, right here. 12:54 You open this book and here's where you find out 12:56 what God said about Himself. 12:58 Here's where you find out about God, 12:59 what He said about forgiveness, and about the world to come. 13:02 It's right here. 13:04 You search for truth here 13:07 and here is where you'll find God. 13:10 Stay tuned. |
Revised 2014-12-17