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Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL180231A
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00:01 What determines a year?
00:03 When the earth makes the complete rotation 00:05 around the sun. 00:07 What determines a day? 00:09 When the earth makes 00:10 the complete rotation on its axis. 00:12 What determines a month? 00:14 When the moon makes a full cycle. 00:17 But the question is what determines a week? 00:22 Today's program is entitled 'R' for Rest. 00:26 We answer that question so stay by. 00:50 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living. 00:51 My name is Curtis Eakins and my beautiful bride 00:55 of almost a quarter of a century. 01:00 Kinda shocking when I say that way. 01:02 See, if I say silver anniversary, 01:03 that's one thing, 01:05 but quarter of century it's like, uh-huh. 01:07 But it's been good though, hasn't it? 01:09 I'm Paula Eakins. 01:10 Oh, yeah, your name. Yeah, okay. 01:12 Yeah, you know your name, too. Yeah. 01:14 I'm glad you with me with these programs today. 01:16 I'm glad to be here, also. 01:18 Oh, your hair looks nice, I like that hairstyle, too. 01:20 Thank you. You're welcome. 01:22 Do you like my hairstyle? 01:24 Love it. 01:25 Okay. Not being facetious. 01:27 Okay, I think we need to focus on the "R" for rest. 01:31 HEALERS, HEALERS, HEALERS. 01:32 "R" for rest, "R" for rest. 01:33 Now, but, let's go back to the tee... 01:35 because think about it now. 01:37 These people will think about, what constitutes a year? 01:40 The earth make a full rotation around the sun. 01:43 A day, a full rotation on its axis. 01:45 A moon, a full cycle. 01:47 But what represents or determines a week? 01:52 Think about that. 01:53 So with that, that something we wanna thing about. 01:55 But before we do that 01:57 this is a series "The HEALERS," 01:59 we're doing with this HEALERS, it's a acronym. 02:02 And we cover for the H for Herbal medicine, 02:05 E for Eating, 02:07 A for Adoration, 02:09 L for Liquids, 02:11 E for Exercise. 02:12 Now this is the "R" for Rest. 02:14 And we are going through this series here 02:17 because trying to help 02:18 to reduce the amount of medications 02:20 that people are taking on a routine basis 02:23 with all the painful side effects. 02:24 As we walk through the series, 02:26 we will cover impact over dozens of diseases, 02:30 just by going through these letters, the series. 02:33 And we are looking at the three tiers of credibility. 02:35 God's Word, tier number one. 02:37 And in tier number two, our featured author 02:39 we're using for this series, Ellen White. 02:42 And in tier number three, 02:43 all the scientific literature as well. 02:45 So those are the three tiers of the credibility 02:47 in the series and got a workbook, 02:49 so we're working from this workbook today. 02:51 Well, that first question is coming in, from our book. 02:53 It is asking the question, 02:55 are that so what physical laws nature determines a week? 03:00 Okay, yes. 03:01 What are the physical laws of the week? 03:03 And really if you look into heavens, Honey. 03:06 A week, that the moon does not determine our week. 03:11 It doesn't. 03:13 The sun doesn't do anything and haven't 03:15 that determines a week. 03:17 The stars, any planet 03:20 not find that determines a week. 03:21 How did we get a seven day week? 03:25 How did we get that? 03:26 There's nothing that we can explain at all 03:30 in the physical laws. 03:32 But when we go to God's Word, 03:34 the standard of truth is here in a Word of God. 03:37 And I'm gonna read this right out of our workbook here. 03:40 This is from in Genesis 2:2, 3 03:45 it says here, NIV, 03:48 "By the seventh day God hath finished the work 03:53 that He had been doing," dealing with creation. 03:56 "On the seventh day He," now here is one thing He did, 04:00 "rested from all His work." 04:03 And another thing He did." 04:05 God blessed the seventh day," and the third thing, 04:09 "and made it holy." 04:13 Why? It tells you, why. 04:16 "On it He rested from all His work of," 04:19 here it is, "creating that He had done." 04:23 So after creation, God did three things, 04:28 He rested, He blessed, and He made it holy. 04:33 So it took Him six days for creation, 04:37 on the seventh day He rested. 04:39 And thereby this is the only thing we have 04:44 that we can determine 04:45 what constitutes a seven day week. 04:51 Outside of this, 04:52 there's nothing in the physical world, 04:55 in our planets, the solar system 04:58 that gives us the seven day week 05:00 but this text right here. 05:05 So the question is... 05:06 So then was God tired? 05:10 You know, and I have heard that before, 05:12 because and you think about it, Honey. 05:14 Now let's say on the first day of the week, 05:16 I mean God only said what? 05:17 "Let there be light." 05:21 There're four words on the first day. 05:24 I mean, that's exhausting to say those four words. 05:26 I mean, that just wore Him out probably. 05:28 I mean He's just saying four words. 05:30 All He did, He just, He spoke and it is to pass. 05:33 So just talking shouldn't make God tired. 05:37 Now on sixth day, He made man 05:38 but again, you know, 05:40 so let's look at the Word of God. 05:42 And so I'm gonna read this from Isaiah 40:28, 05:46 this is the in NIV, Isaiah 40:28, 05:50 "Do you not know?" 05:51 Now notice this is in a question form. 05:54 "Do you not know? 05:56 Have you not heard the Lord is the everlasting God?" 06:01 Here it is. 06:03 "Creator of the ends of the earth, 06:06 He will not grow tired or weary." 06:11 So therefore, 06:13 now I guess here the question remains. 06:16 If God rested on a seventh day from creating the world. 06:21 In the Bible, it says, "He doesn't grow tired." 06:26 I guess the question is, then why did He rest? 06:30 What do you think, Honey? 06:32 I mean, we heard that before, maybe... 06:34 Rest is because of the fact 06:35 that when we think about Christ. 06:37 Okay. 06:38 The fact that Christ rested, the Father and Christ rested. 06:42 Okay. So He's resting really for us. 06:45 Okay. Not for Himself. 06:48 Setting an example. 06:49 Because He's an example for us to follow. 06:51 Okay. And we sure need rest. 06:53 We sure need rest. 06:55 I don't know about you. 06:57 But I know that 06:58 when the seventh day rolls around, I need rest. 07:01 Yes. Okay. 07:03 I think, yeah, it's true. 07:04 I think God is simply setting a divine example. 07:07 Yeah. 07:08 He doesn't need rest, He doesn't get tired. 07:10 So He must be setting a divine example. 07:14 Jesus knew no sin, He was sinless. 07:18 Yet, He was baptized 07:23 setting a divine example for mankind as well. 07:27 So thereby with that in mind, 07:29 that's the only conclusion we can come to, 07:32 setting a divine example. 07:34 And therefore we have our week 07:36 based on creation. 07:39 So therefore, every Sabbath 07:41 we're reminded of the Creator by doing that. 07:46 Well, I heard there is a weekly rest cycle. 07:51 So if there is a weekly rest cycle, 07:53 how do you explain that? 07:55 Okay. 07:56 This is not just from the Word of God, 07:58 this is also from the biblical perspective as well. 08:01 And not biblical but also from the scientific perspective. 08:05 Lot of people know and be aware 08:07 of we have a daily, daily rhythm cycle. 08:12 All right? 08:13 So certain things happen every day, 24 clock. 08:17 Very few people realize that we are also have 08:20 a built-in biological 08:24 weekly rhythm cycle. 08:27 And the father of chronobiology, 08:30 what he's called is Franz Halberg 08:32 from the University of Minnesota. 08:34 And he discovered that not just humans 08:37 but animals, mammals, 08:41 insects, fish, and birds 08:45 operate on an unexplainable built-in 08:50 seven day weekly rhythm cycle. 08:54 Exactly. 08:56 And I've seen in the medical journals, 08:57 it's in the book here... 08:59 There is a medical journal called 09:01 Chronobiology International, 09:04 November 2017 and it's a title. 09:08 This is a title, Honey, 09:09 "Seven Day Human Biological Rhythm." 09:14 So realize that certain things happen 09:18 on the seventh day, 09:22 not just humans, 09:24 animals, insects, fish, birds, mammals 09:28 is unexplainable outside of God's Word. 09:33 It's simply remarkable, simply remarkable. 09:37 Wow! Okay. 09:38 So what affects... 09:39 What functions, what functions we talk about outside of that? 09:43 Right, okay. 09:45 What functions are actually affected by this cycle? 09:46 Now, I'm gonna just go down the list here 09:48 until we just simply, just run out of time. 09:50 Okay. 09:51 So the body has a, normally a daily cycle, 09:53 we mentioned that. 09:55 But also functions on a biological rhythm cycle 09:58 on a weekly basis. 10:00 Okay. 10:01 Let me just start with vitamin K. 10:04 Vitamin K is called the clot, clot vitamin, 10:09 clot bursting vitamin. 10:11 Clot, clotting vitamin, 10:15 that's what I'll say clotting vitamin, 10:17 blood clot, all right. 10:18 Okay. 10:19 And did clotting of vitamin K 10:23 is complete on the seventh day? 10:29 Mercy. 10:30 Therefore when you read in scriptures 10:32 such as Genesis 17:12, 10:35 circumcision is always on the day after, day eight. 10:41 So if you circumcise before that 10:43 they would breach that. 10:44 So vitamin K, 10:46 clot blood is really complete on the seventh, 10:50 not the sixth, not the eighth, but the seventh day. 10:54 That's why circumcision is always on that eighth day 10:57 according to scripture. 10:59 That's one. Okay. 11:00 Now let's go and talk about our teeth. 11:05 They discovered, folks, this is just simply amazing. 11:08 All right, simply amazing. 11:10 This is from American Journal called Frontiers of Physiology, 11:14 June 2017, they discovered that 11:17 there is a dental enamel on our teeth. 11:20 And every time the teeth grows, 11:23 the teeth grows there's like a line a dark spot, 11:27 just like the rings of a tree. 11:28 Yes. All right. 11:30 The teeth is without exception. 11:33 If we look very closely on the microscope 11:35 you can see the dark spots 11:37 on the outside dental enamel 11:38 of the teeth and guess what? 11:41 Those dark spots only occur every seven days. 11:47 Wow! 11:48 Even our teeth experience a "rest." 11:54 Mercy. The teeth, all right. 11:56 Let's go with one more last one. 11:58 What about organ rejection? 12:02 And this is from another medical journal, 12:03 Spanish medical journal. 12:05 They determined that 12:06 when a person receives an organ, 12:08 based on scientific literature, 12:10 when you receive a organ, 12:12 transplant whatever kidney, heart, lungs, 12:15 that if the body is going to reject 12:16 that organ, guess what? 12:19 Usually, it rejects that organ either on the 7th day, 12:24 the 14th day, the 21st day, 12:28 the 28th day on a 7 day cycle. 12:33 Wow! 12:34 This is simply unexplainable outside of God's Word, 12:40 as far as that is concerned. 12:41 Let's go with another one. 12:44 The pineal gland, it's a small p gland 12:48 in the base of the skull, in the brain. 12:51 That releases the hormone melatonin, 12:56 also not just daily but also, folks, on the... 13:02 You guessed it. 13:04 Seventh day, melatonin, 13:08 you know, the mood, that kind of thing. 13:09 And now here's a last one, I got one more come, 13:11 I'm looking into clock. 13:12 I got, we can go on with it, but there's one more, 13:14 just one more, just one more. 13:16 Yes, yes, yes. 13:17 For those they did a study 13:19 and now this is a validated study a years ago, 13:22 got a group the people. 13:23 And they discovered that the heart rate 13:27 beats slightly slower on the... 13:31 You guess it by now. 13:33 That's right. The seventh day. 13:36 Now matter of fact, 13:37 that people's blood pressure 13:39 is slightly lower than a heart rate. 13:42 In respect, even if you have a day off on Saturday, 13:45 or any other day, 13:46 the heart rates beats a little slower 13:49 on the seventh day that any of the day a week. 13:54 Therefore we have an unexplainable built-in 13:59 seven day weekly rhythm cycle. 14:04 And therefore, that's what God says, 14:06 when He create our bodies, 14:08 our bodies are built for resting on that same day 14:13 that our bodies are designed to rest, 14:15 are designed to rest. 14:17 You now hear people say about they have a 24, 7 plus day. 14:21 So now we're knowing that 14:23 in a 24 hours of the day 14:24 as you're cutting down to 7. 14:26 So is there a Bible scripture that actually talks 14:31 about the seventh day rest? 14:33 Well, yes, it is. 14:35 I think we can go with our closing texts, 14:37 I think I'm looking at my time here. 14:39 Let's go to Exodus 20, I remember years ago, 14:45 there was a debate in Houston, Texas over 30 years ago. 14:49 And the debate was over the seventh day Sabbath 14:53 and we are not... 14:55 It was still binding on people 14:58 and went back and forth on that debate. 15:01 But sometimes if we look at the Word of God, 15:05 it tells us about the seventh day Sabbath. 15:08 Of course, the Jesus worship on, 15:11 went to church and synagogue 15:12 on the seventh day of the week. 15:14 Luke 4:16, but we look at this in a heart of Ten Commandments 15:19 God wrote with His own finger, it says in Exodus 20:8. 15:23 It's only commandment that start 15:26 with the word remember, 15:27 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 15:29 Why? 15:31 "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work, 15:34 but the seventh day is a Sabbath 15:36 of the Lord thy God, 15:38 in it thou shalt not do any work, 15:40 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 15:42 nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 15:44 nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 15:46 that is within our gates," why? 15:48 "For in six days the Lord made heavens and earth, 15:52 the sea, and all that in them is, 15:54 and rested the seventh day, 15:57 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, 16:00 and hallowed it. 16:01 Wow! I think, Honey. 16:03 Okay, okay. 16:04 But us resting 16:06 and keeping holy the seventh day, 16:10 we are actually in a harmony 16:13 with how our bodies are created by God 16:15 that created Himself when He created our bodies. 16:19 So those who go against that, 16:21 it's gonna have detrimental far as our longevity is concerned. 16:25 So by resting, observing on a seventh day, 16:30 our bodies are designed to do that by God Himself. 16:33 Well, all I know that I loves the Sabbath day. 16:36 Yes. 16:38 And I'm gonna tell you why I love the Sabbath day 16:39 when we going into kitchen. 16:40 Oh, that's right. Okay. 16:42 Because in a kitchen today, 16:43 we're gonna do another one of our favorites 16:45 which is a vegetable pizza. 16:48 So, get your paper and pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
Revised 2019-10-14