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00:01 - You know, I've been studying music for a lot of years,
00:04 and today I want to show you what listening to music reveals 00:07 about the human brain 00:08 and how that might be able to help you 00:10 find the ultimate meaning of your existence. 00:13 This is a show I don't think you're gonna want to miss. 00:16 [upbeat music] 00:37 Ever since I was little kid, 00:39 I've always been really drawn to the music of Beethoven, 00:42 and I know that's a little bit of a cliche, 00:43 because, you know, 00:45 everybody mentions either Beethoven or Mozart 00:46 when they're talking classical music, 00:49 but I've always, always really liked Ludwig. 00:52 He's been my favorite. [gentle music] 00:54 There's just something about his work 00:57 that stirs up these powerful emotions when I'm listening, 01:00 and I find it difficult to put those emotions in words. 01:03 I can't sum it up, but I'll tell you this. 01:06 I experience the same thing on the same melodies, 01:09 every single time. 01:11 And there's this strange quality to music 01:13 that you don't really find in other forms of art. 01:16 I mean, when you look at a painting, 01:18 you know what the painting is about, 01:20 at least if you're looking at classical paintings, 01:23 and not the works of Jackson Pollock, 01:25 which I fear only he can truly understand. 01:27 But for the most part, when you look at a painting, 01:30 you know what the painting is. 01:32 It's a horse or a castle or a landscape, 01:35 and the painter's artistic ability 01:37 then shapes how you feel about that subject. 01:41 Or take a really good book, 01:44 the kind that you just read for the joy of reading, 01:47 because it's beautifully written. 01:48 It doesn't matter what the book is about. 01:50 That's how I feel about somebody like Annie Dillard 01:53 who writes so masterfully that I just have to read it, 01:56 even if the subject isn't something 01:58 I would normally read about. 02:00 But then again, with books, 02:02 you know what the subject matter is 02:04 because the writer is describing something 02:06 from the real world, 02:08 and then she uses her special descriptive abilities 02:10 to create powerful mental images and emotions. 02:15 In almost every form of art, 02:16 from sculptures to books to painting, 02:19 it's almost like the artist is playing your brain 02:23 as if it's a musical instrument, 02:25 using their talents to reproduce the feelings and emotions 02:28 they had when they started to create the artwork 02:31 in the first place. 02:33 But most of these art forms, 02:35 they start with something in the real world, 02:37 something very objective, 02:39 and they use that objective something 02:41 to help you think about that item in a brand new way. 02:47 With music, though, there's something different. 02:50 With music, the emotions come first. 02:52 You don't actually need to know 02:54 what the artist was thinking about 02:55 when he or she first heard that melody 02:57 in his or her head. 02:59 It's almost irrelevant, in fact, 03:00 because music stirs your own mind, your own emotions 03:05 without you having to know what inspired the composer. 03:09 Of course, it does add something 03:11 to know what the musician's inspiration was, 03:13 to know, for example, 03:14 that Beethoven's Eroica symphony was originally written 03:18 as a tribute to Napoleon 03:19 before Beethoven became aware 03:21 that Napoleon was going off the rails. 03:24 It adds something to know the history, 03:27 but you don't need that to enjoy the composition, 03:29 because music moves your brain 03:32 independent of any objective reality 03:35 that may have inspired it. 03:36 So you hear the music and it generates ideas and emotions, 03:41 and then you kind of apply those feelings 03:43 to something that exists only in your personal world. 03:47 So for example, go back to your turbulent teenage years. 03:51 You hear this sad-sounding song. 03:54 It's going to produce feelings of sadness 03:56 or grief or gloominess, 03:57 because maybe you just broke up 03:59 with your girlfriend or your boyfriend, 04:01 and so those feelings of sadness are amplified 04:04 by an objective reality in your life 04:07 that the artist was completely unaware of 04:10 when the song was written. 04:12 Now, the same thing kind of happens with other forms of art. 04:16 They can amplify thoughts and feelings 04:17 that you already have. 04:19 But with music, this is where you start, 04:22 with the raw emotion. 04:24 So in that regard, this art form is kind of unique. 04:30 Now, there's another way that music works with your brain, 04:33 and this one's kind of mind-bending, 04:35 and I'm not entirely sure I can adequately describe 04:38 what I'm thinking about, 04:40 but when you listen to a melody, the various pitches, 04:44 the various notes in the music 04:45 actually seem to correspond to, 04:47 well, specific locations in your brain. 04:52 Author Daniel J. Levintin describes it like this. 04:55 "After sounds enter the ear, 04:57 they pass by the basilar membrane, 05:00 where certain hair cells fire, 05:02 depending on the frequency of the sounds. 05:04 The membrane acts like a motion detector lamp 05:07 you might have in your garden; 05:08 activity in a certain part of the membrane 05:10 causes it to send an electronic signal 05:13 on up to the auditory complex." 05:16 So this is how music gains entrance into your brain, 05:20 and it's what happens next that I find so very fascinating. 05:24 Here's what he says. 05:25 "The auditory cortex also has a tonotopic map, 05:30 with low to high tones 05:31 stretched out across the cortical surface. 05:34 In this sense, the brain also contains a map 05:37 of different pitches, 05:38 and different areas of the brain 05:40 respond to different pitches." 05:42 Now listen to this part carefully. 05:44 "Pitch is so important 05:46 that the brain represents it directly; 05:48 unlike almost any other musical attribute, 05:51 we could place electrodes in the brain 05:53 and be able to determine what pitches 05:55 were being played to a person 05:57 just by looking at the brain activity." 06:01 So in other words, when you listen to a melody, 06:05 your brain is actually being played by that melody. 06:10 There are specific spots in your brain 06:12 that correspond to the different notes 06:14 that you're listening to. 06:15 It's kind of like when you open a piano up 06:17 and shout at the strings. 06:18 I know it sounds crazy, but you got to try this sometime. 06:22 If you listen carefully, the piano strings that correspond 06:25 to the various frequencies in your voice 06:27 are going to resonate. 06:28 You can hear them vibrating. 06:30 And apparently that's kind of how it works with your mind. 06:34 Specific parts of your brain are gonna fire up 06:36 when you listen to different notes. 06:38 So if somebody had the right equipment to examine your brain 06:41 while you're listening to music, 06:43 they'd be able to reproduce the melody 06:46 based on which parts of your mind fire up 06:49 as you're listening. 06:51 So what you have is really kind of spectacular, 06:54 and I'm definitely heading somewhere with this thought, 06:56 but I have to take a quick break right now, 06:58 so don't go away. 06:59 I'll come right back. 07:01 [soft music] 07:02 - [Announcer] Life can throw a lot at us. 07:04 Sometimes we don't have all the answers, 07:07 but that's where the Bible comes in. 07:10 It's our guide to a more fulfilling life. 07:13 Here at The Voice of Prophecy, 07:14 we've created the Discover Bible guides 07:17 to be your guide to the Bible. 07:18 They're designed to be simple, easy to use, 07:21 and provide answers to many of life's toughest questions, 07:24 and they're absolutely free. 07:26 So jump online now or give us a call 07:28 and start your journey of discovery. 07:32 - So here's what's happening when you listen to music. 07:34 It's almost like the music 07:35 is playing your brain like an instrument, 07:37 because your brain fire specific neurons 07:40 corresponding to specific notes. 07:43 [lively music] 07:44 So think about what's happening. 07:46 First, you have a composer like Beethoven 07:48 who hears a specific melody in his head. 07:50 It only exists in his brain. 07:52 Then he writes down that melody 07:54 using the language of musical notation 07:56 so that other people can pick up an instrument 07:58 200 years later, 08:00 like a violin, and they can play it. 08:03 Then you hear that violin playing those same notes 08:07 that once upon a time only existed 08:10 in the mind of Beethoven 200 years ago, 08:13 and that fires off specific locations in your brain. 08:17 So here's, what's really fascinating. 08:19 Those locations in your brain actually reproduce 08:22 the same frequencies as the notes you're listening to. 08:25 So if you listen to an A, which is traditionally 440 Hertz, 08:30 there are actually neurons in your auditory cortex 08:33 that emit electric signals at exactly 440 Hertz. 08:38 The music is playing your brain. 08:41 Your brain is another instrument. 08:43 And once you've heard that composition once, 08:47 your brain kinda memorizes it. 08:49 You can hear it up here in your head 08:51 for the rest of your life, 08:53 and if you hear the same composition again, 08:55 your brain will actually anticipate which note comes next 08:58 because it knows them. 09:01 It's been hardwired in your mind, 09:03 and you can hear this playing in your head 09:06 to the point where, if you hear a song on the radio, 09:09 and it's a song you used to listen to a lot 09:12 once upon a time, 09:13 when that song comes to an end, 09:15 your brain almost starts playing the next song on the album 09:18 because you used to listen to the same songs 09:21 on the same album in the same order 09:24 over and over and over again, 09:26 at least before we learned how to make custom playlists. 09:30 So think about what's happening here. 09:33 It's like somebody else's thoughts just got uploaded 09:37 into your mental computer. 09:39 It's like we took a USB jump drive, 09:41 shoved it into Beethoven's brain, 09:43 made a copy of what his brain was actually hearing, 09:47 and then uploaded it into your brain. 09:49 Now, the process is a lot less direct 09:52 than simply copying some digital information, 09:55 but the effect is kind of the same. 09:57 You and I have the ability to take our thoughts, 10:00 and through any number of mechanisms, 10:02 upload them into each other's mental computers. 10:05 And it kind of works the same way with any number of things. 10:08 A Greek philosopher living 2000 years ago 10:11 has a profound thought, 10:12 so he writes it down, 10:14 and 2000 years later, you read that thought 10:16 and you upload that same thought into your mind. 10:20 It's information transfer, 10:22 which means that all day, every day, 10:26 you are loading other people's thoughts into your own mind. 10:30 And that would make me start to think 10:32 that I might want to be careful or at least aware 10:35 of what kinds of things I install in my head. 10:39 Whose thoughts, whose worldview 10:42 is being replicated in my mental patterns? 10:47 Now, when I read certain phrases in the Bible, 10:51 it really makes me think about what's happening 10:53 when I open the floodgate of my senses 10:55 to the world around me. 10:56 For example, when the Bible says, 10:58 "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus," 11:03 I have to think about how that might happen, 11:06 because what Paul describes next in that passage 11:08 is completely counter-intuitive for most human beings. 11:12 Paul's talking about the humility of Christ, 11:16 about the fact that Jesus abandoned His own exalted position 11:20 to come here and live among lowly, broken people. 11:25 You and I just don't think that way. 11:27 We tend to think of ourselves first, 11:29 using whatever information we can get our hands on 11:32 to advance self. 11:34 We're basically selfish, 11:36 trapped in this frame of reference 11:38 that always puts you first. 11:41 So how do you change that? 11:42 How do you fundamentally change what's going on in your head 11:46 so that now you think like Jesus thinks? 11:49 It seems that would be completely impossible, 11:52 but then, listen to this statement from the book of Romans, 11:55 and again, this is Paul who's writing this. 11:58 He says, "And do not be conformed to this world, 12:02 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, 12:04 that you may prove what is that good and acceptable 12:07 and perfect will of God." 12:10 So think about it like this. 12:13 Everything you read, everything you see, 12:15 everything you hear makes an impression 12:17 on the neural network of your mind, 12:19 and it's replicating data 12:21 that came from the mind of somebody else. 12:24 So yes, you are definitely your own person. 12:27 You're unique, and your brain is different than mine, 12:31 and you should be really thankful for that. 12:33 But at the same time, 12:35 the stuff in your brain is hardly original. 12:37 Your thoughts have been populated by the ideas 12:40 that came from somebody else. 12:42 You've been installing their thoughts one by one 12:44 over the course of your entire life. 12:47 And of course, because you get a little bit here 12:50 and a little bit there, 12:51 the whole body of knowledge that you've accumulated 12:54 eventually becomes uniquely you, 12:57 because you assemble all the little bits 12:59 in ways that make sense to you. 13:03 But you can never forget, 13:04 you're getting the data from somewhere, 13:06 and that means other people are actually playing your brain 13:09 like a musical instrument, 13:11 whether it's intentional or not. 13:13 Now, what that means is you should probably be aware 13:16 of which ideas are coming from where, 13:18 and then you can make intelligent decisions 13:20 about what kinds of things 13:22 you're gonna store up here in your mind. 13:24 When Paul says that we should be transformed 13:27 by the renewing of our minds, 13:29 what he's telling us is that God is in the business 13:32 of transferring His thoughts, 13:34 and it's a kind of a mind-bending concept, 13:37 but think about this. 13:38 Think about that nature 13:39 of how God communicates with human beings. 13:41 Sometimes He shows up in person, 13:44 thunders from the top of Mount Sinai, 13:46 where the children of Israel 13:47 actually hear the sound of His voice. 13:49 Sometimes God just whispers to your heart, 13:52 like He did with Elijah hiding in the cave. 13:54 Sometimes He takes a prophet and shows him things in vision 13:58 and then asks the prophet to share what he saw. 14:01 But most of the time, God communicates right here, 14:05 through the words of a book. 14:07 So we have another miracle, 14:08 kind of like the miracle of music. 14:10 There's a thought in the mind of God, 14:12 He inspires a prophet to write that down, 14:14 so that generations of people over thousands of years 14:17 can hear that thought in their own minds, 14:21 and it becomes part of who they are. 14:25 I'm kind of reminded of the way that some of the prophets 14:28 were told to symbolically eat the thoughts of God, 14:31 take them and absorb them 14:33 so they become a part of who they are. 14:35 Let me give you this example 14:36 from the book of Jeremiah chapter 15, where it says, 14:39 "Your words were found and I ate them, 14:42 and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; 14:45 for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts." 14:51 In other words, 14:52 God's thoughts can be transferred into your brain. 14:55 It's almost like a jump drive with the very thoughts of God 14:58 got handed to you in this book, 15:01 and you have the ability to load them into your mind 15:04 and make them a part of who you are. 15:07 That's what it means when Jeremiah says 15:09 that God's Word is the joy of his heart. 15:12 He's talking about the mind, the brain, 15:15 which is where we store the very thoughts of God. 15:19 Now, let me show you something really interesting 15:21 over in the book of Revelation, 15:23 because this is really powerful. 15:26 Most of the time, when you and I read a book, 15:28 we kind of think like Westerners, 15:29 and we can't help it, 15:31 because we were raised in a world 15:32 that was shaped by the Greeks and the Romans. 15:35 So when we read a book or an academic paper, 15:37 we tend to think in linear terms. 15:40 The author makes point one, point two, point three, 15:43 and then you get the big conclusion. 15:45 So the most important part of the book 15:47 in our way of thinking is that the end, 15:50 and that's kind of how it works with the Bible. 15:52 I mean, the stuff at the end of the book 15:54 is easily the most exciting, 15:56 because in the last couple of chapters of Revelation, 15:59 it talks about God's plan to completely restore us 16:02 to an authentic human existence, 16:04 so the last couple of chapters is where you find 16:07 some of my favorite parts of the Bible. 16:10 [gentle music] 16:12 But in the book of Revelation, 16:13 you find the really big thoughts, the major drama 16:17 in the middle of the book, 16:19 chapters 12, 13 and 14 in particular. 16:22 So you have chapter 12, 16:24 where we deal with the problem of theodicy 16:26 or the problem of evil. 16:28 If God is good, as He claims to be, 16:30 then where in the world 16:31 did all the pain and suffering come from? 16:33 It's a good question. 16:35 Then you have chapter 13, 16:37 which shows the development of evil in our world, 16:40 how the human race detached itself from the creator 16:43 and chose to go in a new, horribly misguided direction. 16:48 Then you have chapter 14, 16:50 which shows us God's ultimate plan to restore the human race 16:54 to its original purpose, 16:56 and this is where I want to show you 16:57 something really fascinating. 16:59 So here we go. 17:00 Revelation 14, verse one. 17:03 "Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb," 17:06 now, that's a reference to Jesus, 17:07 "standing on Mount Zion," the holy mountain of God, 17:11 "and with Him 144,000, 17:13 having his Father's name written on their foreheads." 17:19 Now, honestly, we could probably spend five or six shows 17:21 just studying that one sentence, 17:23 but the thing I really want you to notice is the name of God 17:26 written on the forehead. 17:29 This is not talking about a literal mark on your forehead, 17:32 like some kind of tattoo. 17:34 It's describing a process that happens in the brain, 17:38 the gray matter located right here behind your forehead. 17:42 This is where you live. 17:43 This back here is who you are. 17:45 The sum total of the thoughts and patterns 17:48 loaded into your brain. 17:51 And what it's saying is that if you want to use your mind 17:54 to its fullest capacity, 17:56 if you want to live an authentic human existence, 17:59 then you want the name of God 18:01 to be written in your mind, 18:03 and what it means by the name of God is His character. 18:06 It's literally having God's thoughts become your thoughts. 18:11 How do I know that? 18:12 Well, stick around, 18:13 because after the break, I'll show you. 18:16 [intense music] 18:18 - [Announcer] Dragons, beasts, cryptic statues. 18:22 Bible prophecy can be incredibly vivid and confusing. 18:26 If you've ever read Daniel or Revelation 18:28 and come away scratching your head, you're not alone. 18:31 Our free Focus on Prophecy guides 18:34 are designed to help you unlock the mysteries of the Bible 18:37 and deepen your understanding of God's plan 18:39 for you and our world. 18:41 Study online, or request them by mail 18:43 and start bringing prophecy into focus today. 18:47 - What we have in the Bible is God's plan to restore 18:50 a broken humanity in His own image. 18:54 You might recall, 18:55 if you happen to be a student of the Bible, 18:56 that in the book of Genesis, 18:58 we read that God originally made human beings in His image. 19:02 Now I want to be careful how I say this, 19:04 because some people have taken this thought 19:05 and drawn the wrong conclusions, 19:09 but the entire creation is a physical expression 19:11 of God's thoughts. 19:13 It's almost like Beethoven 19:15 hearing a beautiful melody in his head 19:16 and then writing it down as sheet music. 19:19 The universe is God's idea. 19:21 It was conceived in the very mind of God. 19:25 So in the Bible, 19:26 you have the Psalmist looking up into the night sky, 19:29 and he understands that he is actually looking at 19:31 a lesson about God himself. 19:33 Now, let me read this to you, 19:35 and I know that I've read this before on the show, 19:36 but I think this is worth reading again. 19:39 [gentle music] 19:40 "O Lord, our Lord, 19:41 how excellent is Your name and all the earth, 19:43 who have set Your glory above the heavens!" 19:48 Now, again, I want to be very careful here, 19:49 because there are people who say 19:52 that this world doesn't actually exist, 19:53 that you and I are nothing but a simulation 19:56 in the mind of God. 19:58 But the Bible describes a God 19:59 who is quite, well, distinct from His creation. 20:02 You can see His fingerprints all over it. 20:05 Creation does reveal who God is if you study it carefully, 20:10 but God is not His creation 20:12 any more than Beethoven is a piece of sheet music. 20:16 And I guess the reason I'm pointing that out 20:18 is because, over the centuries, 20:19 there have been people who say 20:20 that God and His creation are the same thing. 20:23 That's called pantheism, 20:25 where God didn't just make everything, 20:27 He is everything, 20:28 and that's not what the Bible actually teaches. 20:31 There is a creator and there's a creation, 20:33 and they are not the same thing. 20:37 Think of the universe 20:38 like a musical composition from the creator, 20:41 a thought that emerged in the mind of God 20:43 and then was expressed through the things that he made. 20:46 You and I can look at those things 20:48 and feel a sense of awe 20:50 and catch a glimpse of the great composer 20:52 who put it all together. 20:54 These amazing thoughts of beauty, thoughts of holiness, 20:58 thoughts that only God could imagine in the first place, 21:02 He shares them with you, 21:03 and in some small way, they become your thoughts 21:07 and your character becomes a little more like His. 21:11 Now, that's not to say that every thought 21:14 that pops into your head 21:15 was actually sent from God, 21:16 because that is clearly not the case. 21:19 There are other forces at play in the universe 21:21 who also wish to write their characters into your mind, 21:25 and so what God has done, 21:27 He's provided a style guide, I guess, 21:30 to let you know 21:31 whether or not your thoughts are in harmony with His. 21:34 This book is that style guide. 21:37 So let me now get back to this idea 21:40 that God is writing His name in your forehead, 21:42 because this is a really big deal. 21:44 Back in the book of Exodus, 21:46 the prophet Moses asks God to reveal Himself. 21:49 "Please show me your glory," he asks, 21:51 and this is how God answers. 21:54 "Then He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, 21:58 and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. 22:00 I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, 22:03 and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." 22:08 Now, I hope you didn't miss it, 22:11 but when Moses asks to see the glory of God, 22:13 what God does is show him His name, and what is His name? 22:18 He says that He is gracious and compassionate. 22:22 So in other words, God's name is who He is. 22:24 Just listen to this just a few verses later. 22:27 "Now the Lord descended in the cloud 22:30 and stood with him there, 22:31 and proclaimed the name of the Lord." 22:34 So what is that name? 22:36 "And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, 22:39 "The Lord, the Lord God, 22:40 merciful and gracious, long suffering 22:43 and abounding in goodness and truth, 22:44 keeping mercy for thousands, 22:46 forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, 22:49 by no means clearing the guilty." 22:53 When the Bible talks about the name of God, 22:54 what it's not talking about is a written name, 22:58 and that's important because, every so often, 23:00 you'll meet people who insist 23:02 that they have just stumbled across the secret name of God, 23:04 and unless you learn to pronounce it 23:06 or use a specific title for God, 23:08 you're never gonna be in heaven. 23:10 That is not what the Bible teaches. 23:14 God's name is His character. 23:16 It's who He is. 23:18 That's why Jesus told us that He had come 23:20 to show the world God's name in John chapter 17. 23:24 The Bible tells us in Colossians 1 23:26 that Jesus was the very image of the invisible God, 23:29 or as one notable 19th-century author put it, 23:33 Jesus was God's thought made audible. 23:38 Now, I want to be careful that I don't try to 23:40 milk an illustration beyond its actual usefulness, 23:43 but just about Beethoven with me one more time. 23:47 He hears a melody in his head. 23:49 He writes it down. [soft music] 23:51 200 years later, we go to a concert 23:53 and we hear the same tune 23:56 and it plays a specific region in our brains, 23:58 and now that tune is also part of our minds. 24:03 That means, in some way, 24:05 there's a tiny replication of Beethoven inside your head, 24:10 and that's kind of what God wants to do with you. 24:13 He communicates through the written word. 24:16 He puts his thoughts into human language 24:18 so that you can learn about Him 24:20 and become a little more like Him. 24:23 He describes his own character 24:25 by giving us a written moral law 24:28 that shows us the things that God values 24:30 and the things that He doesn't value, 24:32 and then He says, "I will put My laws into their hearts 24:35 and in their minds I will write them." 24:39 Then He takes on human form in the person of Christ 24:41 so you can watch him in action, 24:42 living an authentic human existence, 24:45 and as you learn to love Christ once again, 24:48 you become a little more like Him. 24:51 This is God writing His name in your forehead. 24:57 I'll be right back after this. 25:00 [upbeat music] 25:01 - [Announcer] Are you searching for answers 25:02 to life's toughest questions, 25:04 like where is God when we suffer? 25:06 Can I find a real happiness, 25:08 or is there any hope for our chaotic world? 25:11 The Discover Bible guides will help you 25:13 find the answers you're looking for. 25:15 Visit us at BibleStudies.com 25:18 or give us a call at 888-456-7933 25:23 for your free Discover Bible guides. 25:25 Study online on our secure website, 25:28 or have the free guides mailed right to your home. 25:31 There is never a cost or obligation. 25:34 The Discover Bible guides are our free gift to you. 25:37 Find answers in guides like 25:38 "Does My Life Really Matter to God?" 25:40 and "A Second Chance at Life." 25:43 You'll find answers to the things that matter most to you 25:45 in each of the 26 Discover Bible guides. 25:48 Visit BibleStudies.com and begin your journey today 25:52 to discover answers to life's deepest questions. 26:00 - Let me read you a favorite Bible text. 26:02 I've read it before, 26:03 but this one comes from Jeremiah chapter nine, verse 23. 26:07 "Thus says the Lord, 26:09 let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, 26:11 let not the mighty man glory in his might, 26:13 nor let the rich man glory in his riches, 26:16 but let him who glories glory in this, 26:18 that he understands and knows Me, 26:21 that I am the Lord exercising loving kindness." 26:25 It turns out that, 26:26 even though God's thoughts are so much higher than ours 26:28 that we can barely comprehend them, 26:30 God makes it possible for you to understand Him. 26:34 Now, I'm out of time again for yet another week. 26:37 It's hard to believe I used it all up talking, 26:40 but I'm gonna leave you with one really important thought 26:42 for you to think until we meet again. 26:45 It really, really matters what you load into your mind 26:48 because what you put in here is going to shape who you are. 26:53 And if you want to learn to do this right, 26:56 if you want to get to the finish line of life 26:58 and feel like you did it right, 27:00 if you want to live a genuine, authentic life, 27:04 you're going to want to listen to the one who made you, 27:08 because, well, think about this. 27:11 If there are specific parts of your brain 27:13 that correlate to the sound of music, 27:15 what if there's a specific part of your mind 27:20 that resonates to, that responds to the voice of God? 27:26 What if that's what's been missing in your life? 27:28 What if that would fill the void that everybody feels? 27:31 What if what you've been looking for 27:34 compliments a specific part of your mind, 27:36 and that specific thing you're looking for is your creator? 27:40 Wouldn't that make life worth living? 27:43 Wouldn't that give you the ability 27:45 to get to life's finish line 27:46 and know you did it exactly right? 27:50 I'm Shawn Boonstra. 27:51 Thanks for joining me. 27:52 This has been "Authentic." 27:54 [upbeat music] |
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