Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00027A
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:03 to promote good health and is not intended 00:05 to take the place 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. 00:16 Let me ask you a question, why exercise, 00:19 eat right and drop a few pounds? 00:21 There are many reasons. 00:23 Some make sense, some are down like dangerous, stay tuned. 00:30 I am Dr. James Marcum. 00:31 Are you interested in discovering the reason why, 00:35 you want solutions to your healthcare problems. 00:38 Are you tired f taking medications? 00:40 Well, you are about to be give the "Ultimate Prescription." 00:49 Today we examine the philosophy of health. 00:51 I bet you've never seen a television program 00:53 on that topic before. 00:55 Why we do something and often be as important as what we do. 00:59 Gaining and maintaining optimum health, 01:01 the goal of any same person must confirm to certain rules. 01:05 And those rules have their roots buried in a long ago garden. 01:09 Dr. Marcum the fact that you want to talk about 01:11 the philosophy of health must mean 01:13 that you see some dangers here. 01:16 Yeah, Charles. I think this is very important 01:18 that we talk about this because we have many listeners 01:21 out there, viewers that are watching today 01:23 and they have health problems. 01:25 And no one knows where to start. 01:27 You know, sometimes, you go to the doctor 01:29 and it's just overwhelming. 01:30 You know, you have to do this, this and this. 01:32 You have to eat right, you have to exercise 01:34 and you have to take this medicine, 01:35 and you have to go to this, and everyone's just overwhelmed. 01:39 And one of the things that I have discovered, 01:41 we have to have a overlying philosophy 01:43 to understand why we do, 01:45 what we do and make some changes. 01:47 Anyway, we have a lot of programs out there on health 01:50 and some focuses on lifestyle and that's great. 01:53 Some focus on exercise, you saw that 01:55 'Biggest loser show' right - 01:56 Absolutely, yes. I like that show. 01:57 It's a good show Good show. 01:59 But it just focuses on loosing weight. 02:01 Other's just focus on modern medicine, 02:03 you know, what's the latest greatest procedure out there? 02:05 Well, in changing people you have to sort of meet 02:08 them where they are. 02:10 And you have to sort of learn to know them 02:12 and get to know them and to talk about well, 02:14 why do you have a problem, 02:16 you know, why are you sick? 02:18 And in my search for truth in medicine, 02:21 you know, I was trained this way, 02:24 Charles, if you can't sleep at night, take a medicine. 02:27 If you have acid in your medicine, take a medicine. 02:30 If your blood pressure is high, take a medicine. 02:32 Type-2 diabetes, take a medicine. 02:35 If you hurt your arm, and it's swollen, 02:37 take a medicine. 02:39 If you have a bug in your eye, pull the bug out. 02:41 So they get that one right. 02:42 As there is no bug medicine. 02:43 But the point is this, in medicine, 02:45 they call it medical school, because it dealt with medicine. 02:48 And I've learned that there's so much more to healing. 02:51 Now there is a place for modern medicine, 02:52 don't get me wrong, there's place for medicines, 02:54 but usually it's for an emergency situation, 02:57 get you over the crisis and as Apocrates said, 03:00 let the body heal itself. 03:01 Yes, yes. Let me know, let's get back to normal 03:04 physiology so the body can heal itself, 03:06 so I am looking for a philosophy, 03:08 I've realized that, a lot of the stuff 03:10 that I was taught in medical school, 03:11 didn't really solved problems. 03:14 You know, we treated symptoms, 03:16 but we didn't fixed problems. 03:17 So I went searching for something 03:18 that I could bring my patients to an understanding 03:22 of why they're sick and that went 03:24 to the real medical text book and I was searching 03:26 when I was at the University of Texas, 03:28 and there is, on one of the towers there, 03:31 you sure know the truth, I went back to the Bible 03:34 to use that as my medical text book. 03:36 Now the fact that you say, you went looking 03:38 for truth, weren't you hearing truth 03:40 in medial school or wasn't it there? 03:42 Well, you know, it was like, we talked about it early, 03:45 you know, some people have 03:46 a little bit of that, some people have 03:47 a little bit of this, some people 03:48 have a little bit of that. 03:50 But you want to put it all together. 03:52 And yet my patients would come in to me in different sizes 03:55 and shapes and I had to give them something 03:57 that would sort of meet them where they are at. For instance, 04:00 Charles, if you had 12 things that needed to be changed, 04:03 that I could identify, I wouldn't hit you, 04:05 if I told you to do it all at once, 04:07 you would be overwhelmed. 04:08 That's true. I've got to love you, 04:10 and not judge you. 04:11 And that's what I learned in the Bible as a manual 04:14 for healing, not only, how to do this 04:16 and what would apply but how to approach people. 04:19 You know, the system, you know, you look at what's going 04:21 on right there now and our world's getting sicker. 04:24 You know, the cancer, heart disease, chronic disease, 04:28 the numbers aren't going down. 04:30 So if you look at all that, you'll say, 04:32 listen are we doing this right? 04:34 And we are taking all these medicines. 04:35 Yeah. And we are taking all these pills. 04:36 4 billion medicines a year then over the counters, 04:39 there are more drug stores than our churches now. 04:41 So you say, there's something that's not right. 04:44 Not only is the philosophy may be not right, 04:47 but may be our approach. 04:49 Our approach to people, our approach to patients 04:51 to each other, may be that's part of the problem too. 04:54 May be it's also, in addition of physical problem, 04:58 may be we have the mental disconnect now. 05:00 May be there, all the answers is not in all the technology, 05:04 the apps, the cell phones, may be there's something 05:06 more that we need to look into. 05:08 And our approach is tied directly into our philosophy, 05:11 I think I hear you saying. 05:12 Exactly, Charles. And where do you get 05:14 the philosophy in healing? 05:16 Where do you go? Now we've got lots 05:17 of great prescriptions in the Bible. 05:19 God tells us how to live in the Garden of Eden. 05:22 But not only that, one step further, 05:24 He also tells how to approach healers, 05:27 and also to how to approach the ultimate physician. 05:31 Now, Charles, picture this, picture this. 05:34 You go to a doctor's office, okay. 05:36 You walk in the front door, okay. 05:38 You walk in there and the receptionist meets you 05:41 and she says, you know, Charles, 05:43 I am glad you're here. 05:44 We're just glad you're here and she just welcomes you 05:46 and she loves you and she says, Charles, no forms to fill out, 05:50 no forms, no co-pay, no co-pay at all, okay. 05:54 In fact, all these other people 05:56 don't even wonder why you're there. 05:57 You can go right back and see the doctor. 06:00 So you walk back and see the doctor 06:02 and you don't have any flimsy robe to put 06:04 on where your bottom hangs out, you don't have to wear that. 06:07 you know, nurse plugging you and prodding you, 06:09 and you just sit there and it's nice and relaxed. 06:12 You don't have to wait any time at all, 06:13 the doctor comes right out there and he is right with you. 06:16 And he says, Charles, what's the problem? 06:18 And guess what, you can talk, and talk and talk 06:22 as long as you want. He is there. 06:25 He's not, does not have his hand on the door. 06:26 He doesn't keep checking his watch. 06:27 No, he doesn't keep looking in his watch, 06:29 he's not there at the computer. Right. 06:30 He's not already out writing your prescription 06:32 as you talk, he doesn't do all that. 06:34 He listens, and he listens and he listens. 06:36 The approach is a little bit different than 06:38 what you've had before so you are surprised. 06:40 This is a new approach to healing. 06:42 But I sort of like it, and you talk on and on, 06:46 and you talk everything that's wrong 06:48 and then when you're finished, he asks, Charles, 06:50 you have any questions? 06:51 You know, do I need to clarify anything. 06:53 And you say, no I think that's it. 06:55 And he gives you this wonderful treatment plan. 06:58 He says, Charles, this is what you need to do. 07:00 But I don't want to overwhelm you. 07:02 I just want to give you one thing that you can work on. 07:04 Just one thing and it's going to help you do better 07:07 and when that goes well, you can 07:09 go to number two on the list, okay. 07:11 But let's just go slow here, you know, 07:13 Rome wasn't built in a day, he tells you. 07:14 So you're feeling really good. 07:17 So you go out, you know there's no wait 07:21 when you go out, everyone's not looking 07:22 in the lobbies and -- what's wrong with that guy. 07:24 So you go out and you start to live your life again. 07:27 And guess what, you do all the bad things again 07:30 and you start getting sick again. 07:31 And you forget everything that doctor's told you. 07:34 But you know what, you have a relationship 07:37 with him and you know something's not right, 07:39 so in fact, your relationship is so good 07:42 that you don't mind going back the next day. 07:44 You are not afraid to go back. 07:45 No, you are not afraid to go back the next day. 07:47 No fear and no judging. 07:50 So you go back to that office the next day. 07:52 Guess what, the receptionist goes, Charles! 07:54 You're back again. 07:55 And you go, well, I don't want to be here, 07:59 but I am back again. 08:00 And she says, oh, that's okay. 08:01 This happens all the time. 08:03 He says, are you ready to see the doctor now? 08:05 And you go, yes. 08:06 And you pull out, no co-pay, 08:08 just go right back and guess who is waiting for you? 08:10 The doctor. And you know this time, 08:13 Charles, this time when you walk 08:15 in the room, the doctor says, Charles, I love you, 08:19 and he gives you a big bear hug. 08:21 You sort of feel a little bit bad, 08:23 but because you know, you didn't do anything right 08:25 but he told you and he's spent all that time 08:27 with you yesterday, he did nothing right, 08:29 but the first thing he says is, Charles, 08:31 I love you with all my heart. 08:33 What happened yesterday? 08:34 Tell me what happened. 08:36 And then you sit down and you go through it all again 08:39 and he listens all again and he takes 08:41 all the time in the world and he says, 08:43 Charles, you know, yesterday wasn't a good day 08:46 but today would be a good day. 08:48 In fact we might have five bad days in a row, 08:50 but you can come back and see me every day, 08:53 I will be here and I'm going to give you a hug 08:55 and I'm going to love you, and you know what, 08:56 sooner or later, this is going to happen here, 08:59 we're going to find our path to healing. 09:01 And you go out and then guess what, 09:04 this time you're able to do something different. 09:06 You are able to follow something on the list, 09:07 but at the same time, you know, you can always go back 09:09 to the ultimate physician everyday. 09:11 Well, what I saw in medicine, 09:14 Charles, is this is what we needed. 09:16 Everyone knows about the food we need to eat, 09:19 we know about that. 09:20 We know the modern technology, 09:21 when to use modern medicine, we know that. 09:23 We know about lifestyle but it 's the approach to healing, 09:28 it's the ultimate physician having that relationship 09:31 with Him and letting Him also guide, 09:33 guide this decision making, the approach to healing. 09:36 This was something very important. 09:38 And in our philosophy of health, you have to deal with people, 09:42 you have to deal with this and I found out 09:44 that in those texts, that medical texts in the Bible, 09:47 not only did it give me great ways to learn 09:49 how to change a person's prescriptions 09:51 but it gives us an approach to each other, 09:54 a loving approach and also it gives us a picture 09:57 of the ultimate physician that we have 09:59 to keep in the healing equation. 10:01 You know, when I hear you talk about, 10:03 going and seeing God and spending time with Him like 10:05 you described there, suddenly you want to be healthy, 10:10 not only for yourself but for the someone who is loving you. 10:13 You want to be a healthy for this, 10:15 this physician, this doctor, this God, 10:18 who is showing you this kind of love, 10:21 who is saying that you are special that you can beat this, 10:24 you can make mistakes but I'll be here for you then, 10:27 suddenly the love for God that you feel in your heart becomes 10:33 a motivator for what you do in your own life. 10:36 That philosophy then washes over you and you say, 10:38 I want to be healthy, I want to do the right things, 10:41 I want to go to the second mile here for myself because 10:44 I have a doctor who loves me, who cares for me 10:49 and so I can trust what he is telling me, 10:52 I can trust the rules that he has put out here for me, 10:55 because he loves me and when someone who loves me, 10:58 gives me a rule, that rule has got 11:00 to be a good rule, even though it may be hard on you. 11:03 I hear you saying that in this. 11:04 Right. And you know there's many other health programs out 11:07 there and they do great things, don't get me wrong, but our, 11:12 at Heartwise Ministries in these program, 11:15 we want to focus on the ultimate physician 11:18 as the top of the healing pyramid, 11:20 even if you can't do everything right, 11:22 even if you can't make all the changes. 11:24 As long as you're in that healing relationship 11:26 with Him at some point, healing will occur. 11:30 And I can only assume, 11:31 I can notice from experience to with it. 11:34 The more you love God and the more you realize 11:36 what God has done for you, 11:39 the more you begin to love yourself. 11:41 And so you may begin wanting to be healthy for the God 11:45 who cares for you but then you say, well you know, 11:47 I must be pretty valuable here, I must be something 11:51 that I need to take care of because I am loved, 11:54 and I love myself, and we sort of care 11:57 for things that we love. 11:58 And we're going to discover as we move on to the programs 12:01 that when we have this relationship, 12:04 when we have this, there are real chemical 12:06 and physical changes that happen in the body and in the mind. 12:10 It's just fabulous. 12:12 When David asked for create me a new heart, a new mind. 12:16 Yeah. There's real when God does that, 12:18 when He is the ultimate physician in healing your life. 12:20 There's physical and chemical changes that actually occurred, 12:24 Charles, that's more important than a pill, 12:26 that's more important than any procedure, 12:28 so we want to include this type of treatment, 12:31 this type of approach into the healing triangle. 12:36 We'll take a short break and when we come back, 12:38 we're gonna answer some questions 12:39 that have come in to the Heartwiseministries.org 12:41 that you have sent in. 12:43 Thank you very much and we'll look at those in just a moment, 12:45 so stay right where you are. |
Revised 2014-12-17