Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL000210A
|
00:01 There are many degrees that a person can receive
00:03 in a health medical field, such as RN, Registered Nurse, 00:08 MD, Medical doctor, M.P.H. Master of Public Health. 00:13 Today we are going to be talking about a person 00:16 in focus on one of those degrees entitled 00:18 "The true master of public health, Jesus Christ." 00:23 We will be right back. 00:51 Hi, Welcome to Abundant Living. 00:53 This is Curtis Eakins your co-host. 00:55 I like to introduce my bride of wonderful 18 years 00:59 at the time it is taping Paula Eakins. 01:03 Hello. Hello. Yes. 01:05 I'm glad that you are with me today, on this program. 01:08 I'm very glad to be with you also 01:09 because we are finishing up these eight natural remedies. 01:13 The eight natural remedies. 01:15 Yes, this took a while of all eight, 01:17 but this is the eight one. 01:19 We will talk about other one too as well we did six so, 01:22 but again "True master of public health Jesus Christ." 01:25 But so those who may have not been a part of this series 01:29 the eight natural remedies 01:30 and may not be aware of what those are, 01:33 show to people, honey, 01:34 what are those eight natural remedies 01:35 and how can a person remember them. 01:38 Is there a acronym? Help us out little bit. 01:40 Yes, yes there is an acronym to this whole program 01:44 of the eight natural remedies. 01:47 And the end, the word is called 'New start' 01:50 and the 'N' stands for nutrition, 01:53 the 'E' for exercise, the 'W' for water, 01:57 the 'S' for sunshine, the 'T' for temperance, 02:01 the 'A' is for air, the 'R' is for rest, 02:06 and the 'T' is trust in divine guidance. 02:10 Now this was coined by gentlemen I understand, 02:12 that was having a hard time trying to remember 02:14 the eight natural remedies 02:15 and so he kind off coined that word called "New start." 02:18 And really and truly that last letter that one 02:21 'T' trust in divine guidance should really 02:23 be at the very top. 02:25 Because really and truly there is no way 02:27 we can do any of the other one's 02:28 with out the master of public health. 02:31 Amen. That's pretty good can you repeat that backwards. 02:35 Ah, well I kind of did a little. I did the 'T' at the top. 02:39 I mean the all eight. 02:40 Now, let's not do that right now. 02:42 Okay, let's keep moving on right? 02:44 Yes. Okay, Yeah. 02:46 Now we have two main references 02:48 that we have been talking about the whole time. 02:49 That's true. And those main references were two individuals. 02:52 Okay. Number one was, God himself and His word. 02:55 The standard of truth. 02:56 And the second was Ellen G. White 02:59 who is also a Christian and a servant that talks about. 03:02 Yes. The eight natural remedies. 03:04 And yeah, she is a health educator and a author, 03:07 based on the Library of Congress, 03:08 in Washington, D.C., has published 03:10 been translate more than any other person in United States, 03:14 second in the world. 03:15 And from her council her inspiration from God 03:19 that she coined the eight natural remedies, 03:22 in a book called Counsels on Health, page 90. 03:26 This is actually the correct quotation, 03:28 She says "Proper diet, exercise, use of water, 03:35 sunlight, temperance, air, rest, 03:39 trust in divine power these are the true remedies. 03:44 So with that in mind some Adventist membership 03:48 have been placed there and because of that 03:50 along with God's word, council from God's word 03:53 we have enjoy a measurable degree of health 03:56 and longevity and so with that will do this 03:58 in a series and share that with other individuals 04:01 who may not be aware 04:02 of the eight natural remedies as well. 04:04 So, of course the last one, trust in divine power 04:07 which is "The true master of public health". 04:15 Well, one of the one's we were we are kind of 04:17 I'm not reading it in and out 04:19 and that was another word 04:20 and that was the word, temperance. Yes. 04:22 And so, what when we say the word temperance 04:25 what exactly are we talking about as we relate 04:28 to the eight natural remedies. Okay, yeah. 04:30 And that's the one that we kind of skipped over. 04:32 We covered all the others but we didn't cover temper. 04:35 This one text I like to share with you of course 04:38 by now hopeful you have your Bibles available. 04:41 I'm reading from 1 Corinthians Chapter 9 04:43 and I'm gonna look at verse 25. 04:46 Paul here is talking about the Olympics dealing 04:49 with the people in Corinth, 04:51 also there is experience of application as well. 04:54 And Paul saying, well let me just go with 24 04:57 "Know ye not that they which run 05:00 in a race run all, but one received the prize? 05:04 So run, that ye may obtain." 05:07 Verse 25 "Every man that striveth for the mastery is" 05:12 and here is the word, "temperate in all things." 05:18 Temperate or temperance. 05:21 What does that word means 05:22 because we need to understand 05:24 the explanation of the work in original Greek language. 05:28 Temperance simply means self control, self restraint, 05:35 balance, immoderation and Paul says in all things. 05:41 So therefore we talk about 05:43 the eight natural remedies diet, 05:45 exercise et cetera, we should be tempered, 05:48 we should be have some sense of control, 05:51 some sense of restraint, and since that balanced 05:54 and those things that we talk about 05:56 over the last several weeks. 05:57 So, honey, before we go into that 05:58 master of the public health, let's talk about being 06:01 temperance so of the things 06:02 that we talked about over the last few weeks 06:04 as far as eight natural remedies is concerned. 06:06 Well you know when we spoke about 06:08 the whole eight natural remedies 06:09 we talked about nutrition, and exercise, and water, 06:13 sunshine, of course the word temperance, 06:15 air, rest and interest in God. 06:17 But, let's go back a little bit on that 06:18 because sometimes we get caught up 06:21 in one of those eight natural remedies. 06:23 Okay. And not the full group. 06:25 When I say caught up, you know, 06:26 sometime we can spend all of our time 06:29 in the kitchen dealing with nutrition, 06:31 worrying about what we are gonna eat 06:32 and how we gonna eat it and what's time 06:35 we are gonna eat and how much we are gonna eat 06:37 and we that can really do 24x7 nothing but nutrition. 06:41 Okay, that's not-- It's unbalance. 06:43 Temperance means everything in its rightful place. 06:46 We got our breakfast going, we got the lunch going, 06:48 we got the light dinner going, okay? 06:49 Okay. No in between the meal eating. 06:52 All right, the real one doesn't do exercise. 06:55 You know sometime a person might be doing 06:56 lot of nutrition but they are not even doing 06:58 any exercise whatsoever, we do like American Idle. 07:01 Just sitting around not doing anything. Right. 07:03 Or they might be an individual 07:05 who actually got this exercise going 07:06 where they just feel like everyday to get up, 07:08 they gonna do so many reps, they got to run so far, 07:10 they got to walk so many miles and oh, 07:13 then you got all this time with nothing 07:15 but exercise and no nutrition. 07:17 That's right. Nutrition and no exercise. 07:18 Water, we met people who goes 07:20 with this whole thing we talk. 07:21 We are Biggest Losers. We are biggest loser. 07:23 We thought we are Biggest Loser, 07:25 sometimes when we began, 07:26 our First Biggest Loser program we talked about them 07:29 drinking one cup of water everyday 07:32 for seven days in a week, we are going to change it up 07:33 because they have seven weeks we get together. 07:36 Sometimes that individual might say well, 07:38 I drink a gallon of water a day, you know. 07:41 I have to have more water and should you drink water 07:43 according to your body weight? 07:45 It's not that theme, okay. 07:47 It's really we talked before that 07:49 five and half cups of water, have nutrition 07:51 that the kind of food we eat in plant based 07:53 is also going to give us that refreshment 07:55 because that water is also contained 07:58 in that plant based diet. 07:59 And so, the name I gave for temperance is 08:02 don't get caught up behind any one of these remedies 08:06 except God that is, and just do that 24x7 08:10 because and you are missing the whole thing. 08:11 Because guess what? 08:13 Really and truly when we talk about 08:14 the eight natural remedies, 08:16 we actually talking about the God 08:18 is not only interested in our physical self, 08:22 He is interested in the mental and the spiritual. 08:25 Amen. So it's the three parts to go together, 08:27 the physical, the mental and the spiritual. 08:29 And to be honest with you if we spend lot of time 08:32 on just trying to do the nutrition, 08:34 the water and the exercise we don't have no time 08:36 to share because it becomes all self-centered. 08:39 So moderation temperance is the name of the game. 08:43 Okay, that was very well done. 08:44 I mean that was excellent, superb. 08:48 And I'll say too is that if we are more concerned 08:51 about exercising our bodies 08:55 instead of exercising Godliness, will imbalance. 08:58 Oh, yeah. 08:59 If we are more concerned about drinking water 09:02 than drinking in the living water we are imbalance. 09:06 If we look front about reading labels 09:09 than reading God's word we are imbalance. 09:12 You are about to give an offering, 09:13 you're about to give an offering. 09:15 You are going, you are going down the road, 09:17 you are going down the road. 09:18 All right, so, but again we meet people all the time 09:20 and sometimes they are unbalanced 09:21 and even one of these natural remedies though, 09:24 again temperance, moderation and all things 09:27 as well so just keep that in mind. 09:28 So we got the temperance and we got the nutrition, 09:31 exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, 09:36 air with what rest and now the true master 09:40 of public health Jesus Christ. 09:41 Let's talk about the true 09:43 the true true master of public health. 09:46 There is one text and I like to start with 09:49 and we are going to be talking about Jesus Christ 09:52 the true master of public health 09:54 and what He did while He was here on earth. 09:56 And this is one text that we are going to use 09:58 as a symbolic. Matthew 4:23. 10:05 Mathew 4:23, the Bible says 10:09 "And Jesus went about all Galilee, 10:13 doing three things, 10:15 number one teaching in their synagogues, 10:20 two preaching the gospel of the kingdom, 10:24 three healing." 10:27 Get this now "all manner of sickness 10:31 and all manner of disease". 10:36 Now, preaching, teaching and healing 10:42 the less we know that Jesus had a three fold ministry, 10:45 ministering to the people's spiritual needs, 10:49 physical needs, emotional needs. 10:52 He did all manner of healing sickness and disease, 10:58 which means that sickness 10:59 and disease must not be the same work. 11:02 A person can be sick with out having a disease. 11:08 A person can be really disease and not being sick. 11:12 Jesus healed the sick and those who were diseased 11:16 to physical sickness and the mental sickness 11:19 emotional sickness as well. 11:20 So therefore and He was a master 11:23 because He dwelt with the public, 11:26 so He is the true master of public health. 11:31 Now, honey, you want to share something. 11:32 Well, you know, I was just thinking about 11:34 when you said that you said all manner diseases 11:37 and then sickness and so people have, 11:40 these are two different things. 11:41 Right. Its two different things. 11:43 They are not the same individual in Greek. 11:44 And so, when you say sickness and all manner of disease, 11:49 there is a Bible story that deals with that, 11:52 that the gentlemen that did "A Cripple And His Friends." 11:57 Yes. His friends, you know. 11:59 The man who was sick of the palsy or paralyzed. 12:03 Yes, yeah. Is that what you're talking about? 12:05 Okay, there is a good one here, 12:07 this probably the story of that is really highlight 12:10 as for as Jesus being the master of public health 12:13 and the story well it is in several other Gospel's 12:17 then I'm giving a look at is Matthew 9:1-2 12:23 "And he entered into a ship, and passed over, 12:25 and came into his own city. 12:27 And, behold," verse 2 "they brought to him a man 12:33 sick of the palsy, paralyzed lying on a bed 12:38 and Jesus seeing their faith said 12:43 into the sick of the palsy" now get this and read 12:47 "Son, be of good cheer, 12:52 thy sins be forgiven thee." 12:57 Now, Ellen White the author we have been using 13:00 for the last several weeks, 13:01 she makes a comment on the story 13:04 in the Desire of Ages page 267 and 268. 13:08 She said that Jesus was drawing that man 13:11 while he was still with his beard at the house 13:15 and the man, He realized that 13:18 lot of his sickness was due to his old seeing his own lifestyle 13:24 that caused lot of his debility, as far as being sick, diseased. 13:29 that weighed heavily on him, 13:33 physically and emotionally and mentally. 13:38 Therefore, his burden was 13:40 whether or not his sins were forgiven. 13:44 So when a man let the man down through the roof 13:47 and he had eye to eye with Jesus Christ, 13:50 Jesus first words were not son, you are healed but 13:56 "Son, be a good cheer your sins are forgiven you." 14:01 When he heard that it was like music to his ears, 14:04 because he was physically helpless 14:09 and spiritually hopeless 14:11 because of the weight of sin on him, 14:14 there may be people out there listening today 14:16 who feel that their sins are not forgiven 14:19 they have done so much wrong in their life 14:21 that that in itself crushes the spirit. 14:24 So when Jesus had those words, 14:26 "Son, be of good cheer your sins are forgiven you." 14:32 Ellen White says in Desire of Ages, 14:34 it's like music to His ears. 14:36 And then as a balloonist rise take of that bin and walk. 14:41 So that forgiveness needs to be really less on to 14:45 and clean up on a 1 John 1:9, 14:47 "If we confess our sins, Jesus is faithful 14:52 and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us 14:56 from all unrighteousness." 14:59 So my daughter, my brother, 15:01 if we confess your sins are forgiven. 15:06 Now, I know you're saying to yourself 15:07 that you don't even understand 15:09 what I have been through in my past 15:11 or how I was raised up and things have 15:13 actually going through. 15:14 I like what you said about that your sins are forgiven. 15:17 Yes, because the master of public health 15:20 is so different from mankind. 15:22 When I say different I mean it, 15:24 you know no matter what is going on with us, 15:25 no matter what is happening with us 15:27 we could take it to the cause, 15:29 and God has already to us saying that 15:31 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful 15:34 and just to forgive us our sins 15:36 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness". Amen. 15:39 Which means that, you know, nothing, 15:41 nothing that we have done God has already paid the price. 15:46 As a matter of fact the way He is proving 15:48 His love to us and how He cares us, 15:49 as He stepped up upon a cross 15:51 dying in each one of our places 15:53 giving us a right to the tree life. 15:55 The master of public health, He is the one, 15:58 all we have to do is put it there. 16:00 And you know what when you put it there, 16:02 when you are lay it out there all the stuff of your past, 16:05 let it go. 16:06 Now that you can trust Him, 16:08 but first of all He was is not going to tell 16:10 anybody else about it and number two 16:12 right away He washes it clean. 16:14 Amen. As far as the east is from the west. 16:17 Oh, yeah, I'm glad you didn't say 16:18 as far as north is from the south. 16:20 No, no, no, no. Yeah. 16:21 But, east is east, west is west 16:24 and never the two shall meet so that's infinity. 16:27 Infinity, and then Ellen White says, 16:29 thorough your sins behind my back, okay. 16:32 And other one is depth of the sea, 16:33 well now there are some places 16:35 people can find bottom of the sea. 16:36 No, no, no, no, no. 16:38 So with the keep we have to really just 16:40 simply latch on to that promise that 16:43 if we confess Jesus Christ the master of public health 16:46 can cleanse us from sin and all unrighteousness. 16:50 People are needed to really hear that 16:52 and believe it and take in to their hearts. 16:54 And I say just trust him, just trust him, 16:56 trust him, trust him and I talked about something 16:58 that we read some where we are talking about 17:00 something that I know personally 17:02 I have experience for myself and just to have 17:04 that freedom to know that God has is, 17:07 He has got my case, all right. 17:08 And then those eight natural remedies 17:10 and those eight natural laws, 17:11 as you begin to move into the eight natural laws, 17:14 okay, the nutrition, the exercise, and the water, 17:17 and sunshine, the temperance, the air, 17:19 rest and to rest in the divine guidance 17:21 as you move into that area of accepting Him 17:24 as your personal Savior walking in those remedies, 17:27 I'm telling you you're going to be like a new creation. 17:30 And then guess what you will be so excited about 17:33 what's happening with you that you will run 17:34 and tell a friend like the master of public health. 17:37 He says now, now move on out 17:39 because you know what we are saved to serve, you know that. 17:41 We are saved to serve. 17:44 God needs our hands, our mouth, our eyes 17:47 and our feet to continue that journey 17:50 that He started in our life's and the journey 17:52 that took Him back to the kingdom made new 17:54 and also bring Him back here again. 17:56 So, what can I say? What can you say? 17:58 Oh, yeah, God the master of public health. Amen. 18:02 And so, I know you say master of public health, 18:05 yeah I understand that, I'm all right, 18:08 I got that straighten now are we going into the kitchen? 18:10 Well, yes we are. 18:12 We are going into the kitchen 18:13 because the master of public health also has a lot 18:15 to still say about nutrition and taking care 18:17 of the body temple and so guess what 18:19 we are going to fix a triple berry crisp, 18:23 get your paper and your pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
Revised 2014-12-17