Welcome back and thanks for
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joining us here on
"The Ultimate Prescription"
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On today's
program, we're discussing
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the reasons WHY we're sick.
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Before the break, we
were talking about some of the
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different reasons and we
answered a viewer's question.
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Dr. Marcum,
let's talk a little bit
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about some
solutions to the reasons why.
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Yeah and that's our main
focus today, as we want people
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to ask themselves why
things happen in life.
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And as you're
sitting there, ask yourself,
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"Well why am I
watching this program?
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Why do I go to the doctor?
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Why am I taking
this prescription
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medication? Why am I sick?
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Why do I spend time
in worship every morning?
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Why do I do these basic things?"
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Because when we
ask the question "why,"
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our body does
some amazing things.
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We start getting at
cause; we want to get at causes
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rather than
treat symptoms. Right.
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Even though treating
symptoms is important sometimes,
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until it gives us
time to get at cause.
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Are you following me? Yep!
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I, numerous times, send
people for bypass surgery, Nick.
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We bypass around the
arteries, but we don't take
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away the blockages. Right.
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And sometimes
there are reasons why;
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sometimes it's genetics;
sometimes it's putting stress
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on the genes by smoking
cigarettes or eating bad foods,
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so I work on that too.
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And when we ask ourselves
why, we want to have solutions.
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Well sometimes in
life, no matter what we do,
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we just have bad genetics,
you know, there's nothing we do.
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And for that, we all have
that and we need a Savior,
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and God has promised
to heal us in His time.
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Sometimes it's through modern
medicine and I see that a lot;
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sometimes it's
through lifestyle changes,
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but we want to stay on
that main path looking at Him.
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So when we ask the reason
why, sometimes we don't know;
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sometimes we want a solution.
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So that's why I said, "Well,
what can I give to patients
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and people out there
that might help them not only
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understand the
reason why, but come up with
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some solutions
to the reason why.
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So I developed a
Bible study program called:
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"Biblical
Prescriptions for Life." Yeah.
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So tell us about
this... health and faith,
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a lot of people don't
really put those two together.
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How does faith help your health?
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Well, what we're now
understanding is that people
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that worship, for
instance, they have less
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stress on their bodies.
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The parts of the brain
that communicate with God,
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the anterior
cingulate cortex gets larger,
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so with people that worship,
it's like food for the brain
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You know, you eat
food for your body
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to make it better every
day, we want food for the brain
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to help us with some of
these chronic stressors. Right.
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And also, God gives us the power
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to make changes one
step at a time. Right.
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So faith and health - you know,
God created us and all of us
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are gonna wear out some
day, and even if we do wear out,
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we want to know that
He's going to heal us
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in the twinkling of an
eye, that we can be with Him
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safe forever and that
is treatment in itself
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because we know
where we're going;
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we have assurance; we
don't have to live in fear
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which fear is a stressor.
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You know, God did not
create a spirit of fear...
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"Be anxious about nothing."
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So all of these things, but how
do we apply that to a patient's
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life and how do we help
people that are watching this...
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Maybe that's the reason
why you're watching today
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is to learn how you
can answer these questions.
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So with that, we've developed
a Bible study plan. Yeah!
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"Biblical Prescriptions
for Life," is what's it called,
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and we've prepared a
short introductory video,
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and let's go ahead and
take a look at that now.
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"Hi, I'm Dr. James
Marcum, I've been practicing
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cardiology for
over 20 years now.
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I discuss health issues
with patients every day at the
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office and I try to help
each patient grow to experience
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the best possible outcome,
but the longer I practice
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medicine, the more evident
it becomes that what I was
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taught in medical
school, didn't show me
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the complete picture.
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Today in medicine, we
conduct procedures and prescribe
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medications, but too
often our efforts are treating
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symptoms rather than getting
to the root of the problem.
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In realizing this, I determined
that something had to be done,
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so I opened up the best
textbook that I've ever owned,
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The Bible.
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Our Creator's original
design for our health is
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well-documented and these
concepts found in God's Word
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have significant implications
for our lives today.
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It doesn't have to be hard;
in fact, it's pretty simple.
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Jesus asks us to come unto
Him and He will give us rest.
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I invite you to join
me in experiencing life
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more abundantly as
together we learn to apply
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"Biblical
Prescriptions for Life"
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"Biblical Prescriptions
for Life," this is a 7-week
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Bible study
program and it's available
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at 3ABN, you can
give them a call.
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But this is more than just
a Bible study, this is really
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more of a way of life, right?
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Yeah, and if we
look at the reason why...
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you know, why are
you here on earth?
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You know, what's our purpose?
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And, you know, if we understand
why and plug into God's word,
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and years ago, I said, "My
patients aren't getting better,"
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and that's when I started
going to the Bible and finding
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biblical prescriptions
and applying them to life.
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Okay, so biblical prescriptions,
what is a biblical prescription?
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Well I use that term,
a "biblical prescription"
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as something that we do
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that the Bible has
taught and I say I look
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at the evidence-based
medicine behind it and teach
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people how to
apply it to their lives.
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For instance, people
don't drink enough water.
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Well that could be a
biblical prescription,
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but not only are we
talking about water,
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but we talk
about "living water,"
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and so you'll have the spiritual
and physical - so as we
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go through our day and
we're walking with God,
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and we're talking about
the "living water" plugged
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into that, He helps us
think about drinking water.
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And when we drink some water,
we say, "Yeah, we have a God
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that's interested in
every aspect in life that
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when we're in a relationship
with Him, we're fine
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and this is the path to health.
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Well "Biblical Prescriptions
for Life," goes through this,
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and helps people learn
how to apply this type of
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thinking and this type of living
to their lives and even if
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they had done it, it's a
great way that people can
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reach their friends and
neighbors with better health.
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Meeting needs, loving
them and not judging them,
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and also introducing
them to the power of that
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relationship - that healing
relationship forever that comes
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when you walk with God
just one day at a time.
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You're just not telling
people to drink more water
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or to get more
exercise or sunlight.
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You're also putting a
magnifying glass on the fact
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that we can't do this
on our own and we need to
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tap into that
relationship with God who has
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the power to change our
desires of our heart and live
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in accordance with
the way He designed us.
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Absolutely Nick
and that's the key...
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we all need a Savior. Yeah.
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We all need saving every day.
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We all need to plug into
that power and, you know,
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God works with us one
day at a time and this
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"Biblical Prescriptions
for Life" helps us.
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And there's a place
for modern medicine,
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you know,
there's a place for that.
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There's a place for
healthy lifestyle, but we want
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to say on that path with
Him because that helps us
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to see truth and not everything
is black and white, Nick.
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Each individual, I've
discovered, our bodies are
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so complex - you know,
we know very little about
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how the mind
works; a billion neurons,
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a quadrillion connections.
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We know very little
about the one billion bacteria.
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There's more genetics going on
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in the bacteria
than the whole body.
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We're just now
discovering the intricacies
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of the immune
system. Right, yeah.
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So the more I learn, the less
I know, the more I'm humbled,
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the more I need to turn
to the "Ultimate Physician"
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for answers, not only today
but for eternity. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, I've got some
friends that are my age,
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some younger folks,
and they're in the medical
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community and different
professions but they don't
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feel like the Bible
is relevant to them.
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And in healthcare,
how is the Bible relevant?
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What does the
Bible say about the way
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we should live for our health?
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Is there relevant
information there?
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Yeah, well the Bible is
relevant for all aspects of
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life, from our finances, to
relationships, to the health
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because when we turn to
our Creator, our Creator knows
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us the best and, unfortunately,
sometimes when we're younger
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we think we're invincible!
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You know, "There's
nothing going on in my body?
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I'm perfectly healthy!"
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But underneath
you, you might have some
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genes that are
ageing; you might have some
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genetics that need to
have changed and you might
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have things going on.
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God's word helps us to
understand the ways we can
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be safe in Him forever, but also
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opens up truth and,
you know, how do you know
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who to go to for help,
you know, when your say,
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"Well why, I'm sick,"
"Well, who do you go to?
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Well, you can ask God,
He can send you to the right
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people - help you get the
power to make the right changes.
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You know maybe
you're sick because you're
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eating too much bad
food every day. Right.
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Well He can give you
the power to maybe see that.
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Maybe you're
sick because you have
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just bad relationships
and I hope no one has that.
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But that can age us
genetically, but God gives us
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the power to overcome
these things and that's why
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our physical and
spiritual health go together,
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and that's why in "Biblical
Prescriptions," we walk people
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one step at a time; we
love them, not judge them;
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show them the balance between
lifestyle, modern medicine,
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but the key is on
staying in that path with
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the "Ultimate Physician,"
our Creator who, when we
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come unto Him, that with Him
every day - that's the greatest
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prescription we
can have every day.
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When you ask Him into
your heart, ask Him to be
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your Lord and Savior,
when He walks with you,
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when you ask Him for your
will - when that's going on,
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that's a very safe healing
place to be and He's going to
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take us where we need to go.
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Even if you have the
worst genes in the world,
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He still has a safe
place for you. Yeah!
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Just kind of a
short answer here... Yeah.
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Science - does science support
the ideas found in the Bible,
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and in the Bible study
here, that these things work,
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and that they actually have
some science that backs them.
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Yeah and that's what I try
to do in this study, Nick, is
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everyone likes evidence-based
medicine, so I try
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to find the science
that proves the Bible. Right.
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I believe that
the Bible is true.
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It's the word of God, even
if we don't have the technology
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to explain everything.
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But nowadays, we have genetics,
the human genome has been
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sequenced - Francis
Collins helped with that.
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We now have PET
scans, functional MRIs.
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We can study a lot of things
that we didn't know in the past.
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And all of these, once again,
prove that God's word is true,
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something we can depend on when
this whole world is topsy-turvy.
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Yeah, well I want to make
a free offer to our viewers
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at home - we have a free
resource that you can download
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from the website and
that's our free guide to:
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"Restorative Worship."
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It's a one page PDF that
you can download and print off,
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and there are some
great tips that you can use to
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improve your health
using biblical prescriptions,
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and that can be
found at the following:
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and you can
find more information
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about the Bible study there.
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This is also
something that is available
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through 3ABN but we encourage
you if you would like to
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purchase the study, to
visit the 3ABN store online,
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and you can get a
hold of a copy there.
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And Dr. Marcum, any final words
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about "Biblical
Prescriptions" today?
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No, I just want everyone
to focus on the reason "why."
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If you don't get
anything out of this program,
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think about "why," why
am I listening to this;
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why am I here today and
if you can understand why,
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you'll turn to the cause
and then things will start
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making sense to you. Yeah.
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Well Dr. Marcum,
thank you so much,
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and viewers, thank
you for joining us.
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Dr. Marcum is going
to close the program
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with prayer in just a moment.
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Understanding the reason
"why," this is so important,
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not only to our health, but
important to our entire lives.
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Let's recap a little bit
what we've learned today.
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Well, we're all
born with bad genes.
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These bad genes
age at a specific rate
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depending on our family.
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When these genes malfunction
due to the stresses in life,
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whether that be mental stress,
physical stress, food stress,
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we have genetic changes,
we develop symptoms and a part
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malfunctions and when
that malfunction occurs,
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that's a great
place for modern medicine.
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But modern medicine often
does not look at the cause.
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So we want to ask ourselves
in our lives, the reason WHY,
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and if we could figure out
the reason why, that's our best
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bet to find biblical
prescriptions to help us out.
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And a biblical prescription
is God's plan to really help
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us especially
for chronic disease.
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Does that mean we
don't need modern medicine?
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No, at times we need
that, but He gives us the
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power to see what we need
and also lifestyle medicine
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and even if we have bad
genes that cannot be fixed,
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or straightened
out by modern medicine,
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we're safe in that relationship
with Him for eternity.
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So that's what we
wanted to accomplish here today
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by understanding
the reason "why."
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Now I'd like to pray for
the group here that's watching,
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and if you go to our
website: heartwiseministries.org
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we have a prayer page
where we'd like to pray for you
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because God gives us the
power to do things in our life.
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So let's bow our
heads in prayer...
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Heavenly Father... As we
come to You today, we'd like to
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think that there is a divine
purpose that we're watching this
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program and that's why
that we can connect with You
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in a greater, more
powerful way, Father.
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There are some out
there that are sick, Father.
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Help them to understand
the reason why and to feel
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safe in Your love, and to
feel safe in that relationship
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and lead them to
where You would have them
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on this path to healing.
Is our humble prayer, Amen.
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Well I want to thank each
one of you for spending time
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today - you know, there's lots
of things you could be doing
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with your time, but
thank you for joining us as
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we looked at the
reason "why," and if you might
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have a question or concern,
stay in this relationship with
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"Ultimate Prescription"
by going to our website:
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