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01:30 [Music] JB: Thanks for joining me today.
01:51 I'm John Bradshaw and this is It Is Written. 01:55 You know, it is said that you are what you eat; but if you 01:59 survey the population as a whole, you find out that a whole 02:02 lot of people are ... sick, and could it be that many 02:07 people are sick today because they are what they eat. 02:13 Now, why does this even matter on a Bible discussion program 02:17 such as It Is Written? Well, I'll tell you why. 02:20 Jesus said He came into this world so that we might have life 02:23 and that we might live it more abundantly. 02:26 But in the midst of an obesity epidemic, 02:29 an increasing-- radically increasing-- 02:32 incidence of things such as diabetes and other 02:34 lifestyle illnesses, it doesn't look like 02:38 a lot of people are enjoying a more abundant life, 02:40 but instead a less abundant life. 02:43 Let's see if we can get to the bottom of this today and find 02:45 out how we can enjoy the more abundant life 02:49 that Jesus offers to us. I'm being joined today by my 02:52 guest, Dr. David DeRose, a specialist in the areas of 02:55 internal medicine and preventive medicine. 02:58 We'll talk about that today, big-time. 03:00 Dr. DeRose comes to us from Compass Health Consulting 03:03 in Northern California. Thanks for joining me today, 03:06 David. I'm glad you're here. 03:07 DD: It's great to be with you, John. 03:08 JB: So it's true, you are what you eat. 03:10 Yeah, you've got to be careful but what we eat impacts us 03:13 in a massive way. DD: Literally, 03:15 we are what we eat. The elements that make up 03:17 our bodies are those very things that we ingested-- 03:20 or that our mother ingested. JB: Somebody mentioned this to 03:22 me recently, and I think a lot of people are really surprised 03:24 by this. Your blood is made from 03:30 what you eat; what you put into your body. 03:32 What you put in actually, literally, physically becomes 03:35 part of who you are. Correct or not? 03:37 DD: That's right. It's not just your blood, 03:38 it's every single cell of your body. 03:40 I mean, those are the raw materials that make up the body. 03:43 They have to come from somewhere. 03:44 They don't just come out of the air, 03:46 although oxygen, of course, does. 03:49 But we actually need to eat in order to make every cell 03:51 in our body. JB: So, as cells are being 03:53 regenerated, rejuvenated, repaired, it all comes back to 03:58 the fact they are being made from-- what we are is being 04:01 made from-- what we put in. DD: That's right. 04:05 And some of those cells are turning over very rapidly. 04:07 You mentioned the red blood cells. 04:08 They turn over about every three months, about a hundred-day 04:12 lifespan for the red blood cell. And although some things are 04:15 recycled-- like the iron in the red blood cell, 04:18 that's largely recycled-- but other things we 04:20 need to ingest in order to make those new cellular components. 04:24 JB: You know, it seems to me, if we are being regenerated at 04:27 a cellular level by the things that we put into our bodies, 04:31 wouldn't just knowing that make you stop and say, well, I need 04:34 to be putting in good stuff to make good cells or red blood 04:39 cells or whatever. DD: One of my favorite texts 04:41 when we speak about this topic actually 04:43 is in the book of Genesis. JB: All right. 04:45 DD: Because there God is creating a perfect world. 04:49 And in Genesis 1-- JB: Right at the beginning. 04:52 DD: That's right, right at the beginning. 04:53 First chapter of the Bible, you go down to verse 29 and you see 04:57 that God has a specific plan, as far as our nutritional 05:01 program. God said, "See, I have given you 05:04 every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the 05:07 earth and every tree whose fruit yields seed, 05:12 to you it shall be for food." God is giving mankind, 05:16 humankind, a vegetarian diet in the very beginning. 05:20 And what we find today, John, is the optimal diet to avoid 05:24 most of these chronic diseases that we're talking about 05:26 is a diet that focuses on those whole plant foods. 05:30 JB: Okay, but also, later on, God said, 05:33 "Take the Passover lamb"-- DD: No question. 05:36 JB: And then made out of kale and all of that-- 05:38 DD: You've got it. JB: Well, they eat grass. 05:40 DD: That's right. JB: Take the Passover lamb 05:43 and eat that. That's not a-- 05:45 it may have been a vegetarian lamb, 05:47 but people who eat lambs aren't vegetarians. 05:49 So, what was God doing back here. 05:51 Eat these things that don't have mothers or faces; and over here, 05:57 go ahead and eat meat. DD: And you could even 05:59 take that a step further. When Jesus fed the multitude, 06:02 He didn't just give them bread, which is a vegetarian product. 06:07 He gave them-- JB: Bread and fish. 06:09 DD: That's right. JB: So, are we seeing 06:11 a contradiction here? DD: What I find so interesting, 06:13 John. It's an excellent question. 06:15 God meets people where they're at. 06:18 God's first concern-- as I read the Bible as both a physician 06:21 and as a Bible student-- His first concern has always 06:25 been our spiritual health and our relationship with Him. 06:28 But you see this theme running throughout the Bible. 06:31 When God wants to give people an optimal diet, whether it's in 06:34 Genesis or in their wilderness wanderings, God does not give 06:38 them animal products. There was no raining of quail 06:44 until the people demanded it, if you will. 06:46 JB: And then when they ate the quail, 06:48 they became sick from eating it. DD: Yeah, at least 06:49 the second time around. JB: So in the wilderness, 06:51 God gave them a type of food that matched up with what 06:55 we find in Genesis chapter 1. DD: Exactly. 06:58 So, here's the interesting thing, though. 06:59 Let's talk about some of the things we want to avoid today, 07:01 and it really brings out this dialogue. 07:04 The lamb of Jesus' day; the fish of Jesus' day. 07:07 They didn't have one of the big problems that we're dealing with 07:10 today, and that is an accumulation of toxins 07:13 in their tissues. Today, a huge issue is our 07:16 contaminated environment. And some of the things that are 07:20 contaminating our environment are heavy metals. 07:23 Things like mercury or cadmium. Things like toxins. 07:28 Toxins like DDT, and it's metabolized. 07:31 You say, "Well, we don't use that anymore." 07:32 But it's still in the environment. 07:34 Lead-- still in the environment. What happens is, if you look at 07:37 living creatures, the higher up you move on the food chain, 07:43 the greater the concentration of those toxins. 07:45 Roughly speaking, about a tenfold increase, 07:49 every level you go up. You take the phytoplankton, 07:52 living in the water. Those waters are contaminated. 07:56 They have a concentration of a toxin in their tissue. 07:59 Then you look at the small fish that eat the phytoplankton. 08:03 Roughly about 10 times as much of that toxin will be in their 08:06 tissue, gram for gram. You go to the bigger fish 08:10 that eats the smaller fish. Now you've got a hundred times 08:13 what was in that phytoplankton. When you get up to things 08:16 very high on the food chain, like the birds of prey, you can 08:20 understand why the California condor was dying out, before we 08:24 started to get serious about controlling the environment. 08:27 It doesn't mean all the toxins are gone, but the point is, 08:31 those foods that in Jesus' day, we would say would be 08:35 good sources. People living on the shores 08:36 of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus wouldn't reasonably 08:39 say you can't have fish; that was a staple in their diet. 08:42 But a much healthier choice back then than it is today. 08:45 JB: It's true that you are what you eat, and you want to live a 08:47 long, happy, abundant, healthy life. 08:51 The longer and healthier you can live, the better quality of life 08:54 you can have, on balance, and the more 08:56 you can glorify God. So, if you are what you eat, 09:00 what are you eating? We'll find out more with 09:02 Dr. David DeRose in just a moment. 09:06 Every Word is a one-minute Bible-based daily devotional 09:10 presented by Pastor John Bradshaw and designed especially 09:13 for busy people like you. Look for Every Word on selected 09:17 networks, or watch it online every day on our website, 09:20 ItIsWritten.com. ♪ [Rythmic Melody] 09:30 JB: I was eating the other day, as you do, when it occurred to 09:34 me again that I'd have to eat again in just five hours or so. 09:38 We eat, and then we have to eat some more. 09:40 We're dependent on that food, that fuel. 09:43 God didn't have to design us that way, but it seems He might 09:46 have done so to try to get us to remember something. 09:49 Just as you are dependent on constant, regular nourishment to 09:51 get through life, you're dependent on the grace of God 09:54 to get you through each day. We ought to be leaning on God 09:57 and feeding on His Word for spiritual strength, 09:59 just as we feed on food for physical strength. 10:03 Some of us are guilty of eating a little too much and guilty 10:05 of feeding on the Bible a little too little. 10:08 In John 6, verse 48, Jesus said, "I am the bread of life." 10:13 I want to encourage you today to eat well. 10:17 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written. 10:19 Let's live today by every word. 10:25 Planning for your financial future is a vital aspect of 10:28 Christian stewardship. For this reason, It Is Written is pleased 10:31 to offer free planned giving and estate services. For information 10:36 on how we can help you, please call (800) 992-2219. Call today, 10:42 or visit our special website, www.HisLegacy.com. 10:51 JB: This is It Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw. 10:53 Thank you for joining me today. And we are being joined by 10:55 Dr. David DeRose from Compass Health Consultants 10:58 in Northern California. Dr. DeRose, today we're talking 11:01 about what people eat. That old saying, 11:04 you are what you eat. And a moment ago, 11:05 we were starting to talk about foods that are a little 11:08 higher up the food chain. The higher up you go, the 11:10 greater the concentration of toxins, and perhaps poisons and 11:15 heavy metals in those foods. The bigger foods, 11:17 more than the smaller. In the beginning God gave the 11:21 human family, without a doubt, a vegetarian, 11:23 a plant-based diet. Then later He said, well, okay, 11:27 you certainly may eat some of this or some of that. 11:29 He never did say you'll be better for it. 11:32 And you notice too, that when animals entered the menu was 11:38 at the same time that people started living dramatically 11:40 shorter lives. DD: Very interesting. 11:42 Very interesting. JB: Yeah. 11:43 Clean and unclean food. It's certainly biblical, 11:46 but is it valid today and is it just for the Jews? 11:49 DD: Well, first of all, the distinction of clean 11:52 and unclean animals and today's ever being a Jew. 11:56 If you read the account of the flood, that great deluge, 11:59 Noah was instructed about the animals, and there were clean 12:03 and unclean that were identified in that account. 12:06 So it's not something that God added just for the benefit 12:09 of the Jews. JB: In Genesis 7, in verse 2, 12:13 "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, 12:16 the male and the female, and of the beasts that are 12:18 not clean by two, the male and his female." 12:21 God identifying clean and unclean animals before there was 12:24 even a Jew on the planet. DD: And many have said, 12:26 "Well, why?" Well, we see there's sacrifice 12:30 after the flood, but there was also going to be apparently a 12:32 necessity to eat some of those animals after all the vegetation 12:36 was essentially wiped off the earth. 12:38 JB: And if you ate one of the unclean, 12:40 you'd go from two to one. The species would be gone. 12:42 DD: And so the very point about how many were taken on was 12:45 making a powerful, powerful statement about what were 12:48 sacrificial and potentially permissible animals to eat-- 12:52 only those that were clean. JB: Is there health benefits to 12:55 abstaining from these animals that are called unclean? 12:58 DD: No question. Now, you've identified some 13:00 animals, like the horse and the rabbit, 13:02 that are largely vegetarian. So they'd be lower on the food 13:06 chain, if you will. But many of the animals that 13:09 are excluded-- you read a description, for example, 13:12 in Leviticus 11 of what those unclean animals are-- 13:16 and you'll find the scavengers, like you mentioned. 13:18 The pigs, the crustacea of the ocean. 13:22 You'll also find things that are very high on the food chain, 13:26 like the birds of prey. All of those things 13:29 were off limits. We know today, 13:31 the technical term is called "biomagnification." 13:35 What that means is, like we were expressing earlier in the show, 13:39 if you eat things that are low on the food chain-- those small, 13:41 little fish-- they're going to have low levels of toxins 13:44 and contaminants. As you move up the level, 13:48 you will get higher and higher levels of toxins. 13:51 JB: When you think about something like a shellfish, 13:54 you can say, well, if God didn't intend for us to eat it, 13:56 why did He make it? And the shellfish 13:59 is a classic example. They've shown this in places 14:01 such as the Chesapeake Bay. When you introduce shellfish, 14:04 they filter the water. They take out the toxins and 14:09 return the good water back into the ecosystem. 14:12 So, thank God that we have them, but imagine when you're eating 14:14 that, you're eating all those toxins. 14:17 DD: And this brings up a whole other point: many transmittable 14:20 diseases are traced to these unclean foods. 14:23 You mentioned pork earlier; you mentioned shellfish. 14:26 Pork is a classic example. Our Centers for Disease Control 14:29 in the United States speak about neglected parasitic 14:32 diseases that are not on the radar screen. 14:35 One of them is cysticercosis. It actually comes 14:38 from the pork tapeworm. And this can cause 14:42 serious illness. It's actually-- John, 14:45 this may be surprising to you-- one of the leading causes, 14:48 if not the leading cause, of epilepsy worldwide, 14:52 is from the pork tapeworm. Something called 14:54 neurocysticercosis. Cysts that actually invade the 14:59 brain and are a leading cause of seizure worldwide. 15:02 As I read through the Bible, I find it fascinating that when 15:05 Jesus was resurrected, in Luke 24, 15:08 we read those stories of Jesus' encounter with the disciples. 15:11 Or on the Emmaus Road. Jesus points them back to the 15:13 Old Testament. Many of my Christian friends 15:16 think the Old Testament is a book that's just to be 15:19 set aside. Jesus wanted their faith 15:21 anchored in the Old Testament. Now, he was especially 15:25 referring to the prophecies that spoke of Him. 15:27 But what's interesting to me as a physician is-- I don't know of 15:31 any example where God gave a ceremonial law that didn't have 15:38 some significant health connections that persist today. 15:42 Well, we're speaking about these so-called ceremonial health 15:44 laws. In other words, 15:45 God didn't tell them to avoid unclean foods just 15:48 to each some spiritual lesson; there was sound health 15:52 information there. We could talk about 15:53 circumcision, or how the Jews were able to be clean after 15:58 contact with death. All of these things have 16:00 valid health principles. But you don't have to sacrifice 16:03 a red heifer today. Do you see my point? 16:06 JB: Absolutely, but bring them back to this, because someone's 16:08 saying, "Oh, look, this is well and good, but those guys are off 16:10 base, because that was just a ceremony, and when Jesus died, 16:16 none of that mattered anymore." DD: Let me go to this example. 16:20 Maybe we should turn in our Bibles to it. 16:21 I'm turning to the book of Numbers. 16:24 It's a fascinating example. I'm going to Numbers chapter 19, 16:29 and in Numbers 19 we read these laws of purification. 16:34 This is the "red heifer sacrifice." 16:38 Any Christian who's studied this realizes that the red heifer was 16:42 symbolizing Jesus. He was the sinless one 16:45 who was killed outside the camp. Today, you and I, as Christians, 16:50 don't need to sacrifice a red heifer. 16:52 Jesus IS our all-sufficient sacrifice. 16:56 JB: Right. DD: But if you read through 16:58 Numbers 19, you find that embedded in that red heifer 17:02 sacrifice and its aftermath were restrictions and laws for 17:07 scrupulous cleanliness after contact with death. 17:11 Because the Christian world set that aside for decades and 17:15 centuries, we had in the 1800s, in Europe, for example, 17:19 epidemics of childbirth fever. Ignaz Semmelweis, the famous 17:24 Austrian physician who brought this to the fore, he realized 17:30 that women were dying. One in six women or more were 17:33 dying in childbirth, in the main hospital there in Vienna, 17:37 because doctors would examine the dead women and then they'd 17:40 go and examine the living women. They were transmitting disease. 17:43 If they'd followed the principles of Numbers 19, 17:47 this would never have happened. JB: Important principles 17:50 because, after all, you are what you eat. 17:55 And, if we made simple, small changes in the area of what we 17:59 eat, we would see big results in our physical health and 18:03 certainly in our spiritual health as well. 18:06 Now, in just a moment, I'm going to tell you what this is. 18:12 And you will be amazed, when you discover 18:15 just what you're eating. 18:19 Back with more, straight ahead. 18:26 [Musical Segue] Fasting. 18:34 It's a very biblical concept, but it's also very 18:38 misunderstood. 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It Is Written exists because of 19:26 the kindness of people just like you. 19:29 It's only with your help that It Is Written can continue to share 19:32 the hope of the Bible with people all around the world. 19:36 Your tax-deductible gift can be sent to the address on your 19:38 screen, or you can support us online at ItIsWritten.com. 19:44 Thank you for your continued prayerful support. 19:47 Our toll-free number is (800) 253-3000, 19:50 and we're online at ItIsWritten.com. 19:55 JB: Thanks for joining me today on It Is Written. 19:57 You know that it is said so often that you are what you eat, 20:01 and if that's the case, then we are sick because we're eating 20:04 food that makes us sick. Dr. David DeRose 20:07 is joining me today. I want to ask you, Dr. DeRose, 20:10 where are the problems? What are the problem areas 20:14 in what we eat? DD: Well, if we want to speak 20:16 physiologically, one of the big ones is fat. 20:20 And the reason I say physiologically is your cell 20:23 membrane is made up of fat, among other things. 20:27 The type of fat you eat will affect how fluid 20:31 that membrane is. You say, well, 20:32 what difference does that make? It's because the cell membrane 20:35 is where the action takes place. In your brain, 20:39 the neurotransmitters, the brain chemicals, 20:42 interact with other membranes. What happens is, 20:46 if you're eating more of the saturated fats, 20:49 more of the trans fats, these two categories of fats, 20:53 they make the cell membranes more rigid and make nerve 20:57 transmission more difficult. They make insulin signaling 21:00 worse, and so they lay the foundation for diabetes. 21:04 So it's not just a question of amount of fat, 21:06 but what kind of fat. Those saturated fats primarily 21:09 in animal products; trans fats in those partially 21:12 hydrogenated vegetable oils. JB: Good fats, avocado; 21:15 good fats in nuts. Those are good fats, right? 21:18 DD: Very interesting. Back in the '90s, people were 21:21 lumping all these together. They were saying nuts 21:24 were bad for you. At least many people in the 21:25 preventive medicine community. But then in the '90s is when 21:30 researchers at Loma Linda University came out with some of 21:32 the early studies showing that nuts had powerful, 21:36 heart-preventive properties, and that started to swing the 21:40 pendulum in the other direction. JB: But the bad fats 21:41 are no good. I want to show you something 21:43 when it comes to fat. Each time you eat that 21:46 well-known burger from that well-known burger chain, 21:50 you're getting that much fat. Dr. DeRose, what does 21:52 the body do with this much fat? DD: That's saturated fat, 21:56 largely saturated. That animal fat. 21:58 JB: Right. DD: What happens is, 22:00 first of all the blood becomes what we call lipemic. 22:02 When you eat that fat, it goes into the blood stream 22:05 and that actually affects the fluidity of the blood. 22:08 But then it has that impact, that long-term impact, 22:11 on the cell membranes, and actually it's setting 22:14 the stage for many of the diseases that we 22:16 experience today. JB: But this is how much 22:18 fat there is in a candy bar. Take a look at this, 22:20 typical candy bar. A small one. 22:22 And this is how much fat there is in a reasonably 22:26 small bag of potato chips. DD: We've cultivated, 22:29 as a society, a desire for higher saturated fat. 22:34 Higher sugar. Higher salt. 22:36 With the research shows us though-- 22:38 let's talk about fat-- as you get away from 22:40 that high fat consumption, your tastes change. 22:44 Big study, interventional study in women with cancer. 22:48 Breast cancer. Decreasing their fat 22:50 consumption-- when they did the pilot study, over the course of 22:52 the year, they found the women that cut their fat dramatically, 22:56 they tended to develop a distaste for the high fat foods 23:00 that they used to enjoy. JB: And this is how much sugar 23:03 there is, in a can of soda. Ah! 23:06 Stop and think. I mean, I wouldn't take 23:09 the top off this and chug this much raw sugar, ever. 23:13 You just wouldn't do it. But you do 23:15 when you buy a can of soda and pour that down your throat. 23:17 DD: And the data really suggests this is one of the things, 23:20 the sugar-sweetened beverages, that are fueling the epidemic 23:24 of obesity our country, John. JB: This is how much there is in 23:27 a cup of ice cream. That's a lot of sugar. 23:28 DD: And you add the fat to that equation, in those foods. 23:31 And many of those same foods that are high in fat and high in 23:34 sugar often are high in salt. Did you know, for example, 23:37 that you can put a lot more salt in a food if it's got 23:40 a lot of sugar in it, and not even taste salty? 23:42 JB: Okay, you'd better go off the ice cream and onto the 23:45 brownies, because, whereas this was as much sugar in a cup of 23:50 ice cream, the one on this end here is as much sugar 23:53 as there is in a brownie. A two-inch-square brownie. 23:56 DD: And who sticks with a two-inch-square brownie? 23:59 JB: Oh, no, it's not good until you've had two or three. 24:01 And when it comes to sugars, you can find in some food products 24:04 2-3-4-5 different sugars, right? There'll be sugar, corn syrup, 24:08 high fructose corn syrup, any number of other sweeteners 24:11 that are in one food item. DD: And the reason why some 24:14 manufacturers apparently do this is you have to list ingredients 24:18 in order of their prevalence in the product. 24:21 So, even though sugar in its various forms may be the 24:26 top ingredient, if you put five different sweeteners in there, 24:29 you may be able to put the whole wheat first, even though it's 24:32 only 10 percent whole wheat and 40 percent sugar. 24:35 JB: Now, are there any sugars that are really pretty good 24:37 for you? Because there's debates about 24:39 high fructose corn syrup, and you read "cane sugar" or "dried 24:45 cane sugar" or whatever. Can I look at that and go, oh, 24:47 it's got that sugar; that's good for me? 24:49 DD: The sweet things we were designed to enjoy are the 24:52 fruits, the sweet vegetables, things of this nature. 24:55 If you're getting those whole foods in nature, 24:58 you can have those things satisfy the sweet tooth. 25:01 No, it's not going to taste like the brownie or the ice 25:03 cream-- not at first. But if you stick with eating 25:05 those healthy sweets that God provided, in Genesis 1, 25:10 you will find a distaste tends to develop for those 25:13 artificially sweetened things. Whether it's "natural sugar" 25:17 that's being used to sweeten it or some artificial sweetener. 25:21 JB: Man, if you get some of those good dates, those medjool 25:24 dates they grow in Indio, California, around there. 25:28 Oh, they're sweet and they're good. 25:31 DD: In moderation, of course. JB: In moderation. 25:33 Some Americans are eating this much salt. 25:37 Two and a half teaspoons of salt in a day. 25:39 Many. It is said that the average 25:43 American is consuming maybe about this much. 25:46 Maybe about this much. DD: One and a half teaspoons. 25:49 JB: Whereas, what we should be consuming is merely this much. 25:55 A teaspoon of salt a day, and no more. 25:58 DD: No. And actually, although people 26:00 have tried to downplay the relationship between salt and 26:03 disease, a major study in the New England Journal of Medicine 26:06 back in 2010 actually looked at all the data, and how many 26:10 people in America are dying because of just having a 26:14 half-teaspoon of salt more a day. 26:17 In other words, if we were to decrease-- all of us, 26:19 across the board-- decrease our sodium 26:21 consumption, salt consumption, by just half a teaspoon, 26:25 we would save tens of thousands of lives from things like 26:28 stroke and heart attack. JB: From a biblical point of 26:31 view, why we're driving at this is because Jesus wants us to 26:33 have a more abundant life. And you say to yourself, 26:36 well, yeah, I'm drinking three sodas a day. 26:39 And I know people who carry around the Big Gulp things. 26:44 They carry them with them, everywhere they go. 26:46 I don't know how much they're getting-- 26:47 it's got to be killing them. Or you say, well, yeah, I'm 26:50 eating lots of ice cream and all of that sugar that comes with 26:53 it, and I'm getting the brownies and whatever. 26:56 What you're advocating, when you say 26:57 decreasing the amount of salt, you're not saying eat no salt, 27:02 eat no sweet stuff; eat zero fat. 27:06 Just make a little change here. Eat moderate amounts. 27:10 Get more of the good and less of the bad, and perhaps start the 27:14 change incrementally. I mean, it would be ideal for 27:16 somebody to go cold turkey, off the bad and onto the good. 27:19 It doesn't always work that way for people. 27:21 But small changes can bring big results. 27:24 DD: They can be powerful, and yet, the most powerful 27:27 things to actually reeducate your taste are larger changes. 27:31 JB: There is hope for you. And for me. 27:34 And I'm glad, because Jesus not only wants to give us the more 27:38 abundant life, but it is through Jesus-- 27:40 through the power of the Holy Spirit-- 27:42 that we can get from where we are, if perhaps 27:44 we're living an unhealthy life. And with the power of God we 27:47 can put down some of the stuff that's simply killing us, and 27:51 take up the sorts of things that will enhance our lives, 27:54 increase our lifespan, and give us a more productive, 27:57 quality life while we're living here on this earth. 28:01 Our time here on this earth is so short, we ought to be making 28:03 the best of it, not ruining it. DD: Most definitely. 28:07 JB: Our time on this program is short, too, Dr. DeRose. 28:09 Thanks for joining me today. This has been a blessing. 28:11 DD: It's always good to be with you. 28:12 JB: And thank you for joining me. 28:13 I want you to be encouraged today. 28:15 Why did Jesus come? So that we might live. 28:19 How does He want us to live? A more abundant life. 28:22 That's what He offers you today. Why don't we pray together? 28:25 Ask God for that life, and thank Him for it as well. 28:29 Let's pray. ♪ [Gentle Music] 28:31 Our Father in heaven, we are grateful that Your thoughts 28:34 toward us are for good. We are thankful 28:37 that it's through Jesus, through Your power, 28:40 with Your help, that we can have a more abundant life. 28:44 I am thankful today that with your help we can be the sorts of 28:48 people you want us to be, and live the kind of life 28:51 you want us to live. Lord, where we need help, 28:53 give us that help; where we simply cannot do 28:57 in us what You want to see done. 29:00 We thank You today and we praise You, and we claim the more 29:02 abundant life in Jesus. And we pray in Jesus' name. 29:06 Amen. DD: Amen. 29:09 ♪ [Music rings out] 29:19 JB: I'm so glad you've joined me today, 29:21 and I look forward to seeing you again next time. 29:23 Until then, remember: It is written, 29:26 man shall not live by bread alone, 29:28 but by every word that proceeds 29:30 from the mouth of God. ♪ [It Is Written Theme] |
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