Participants: Rico Hill (Host), Schubert Palmer, Nwamiko Madden
Series Code: FSH
Program Code: FSH000007
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00:03 In John chapter 8 and verse 12 the Bible reads:
00:06 "Then spake Jesus unto them saying: 00:08 'I am the Light of the world. He that followeth Me 00:12 shall not walk in darkness 00:14 but shall have the light of life. ' " 00:18 Praise the Lord everyone and welcome to From Sickness 00:21 To Health. I'm your host Rico Hill 00:23 and this is my co-host, the blue guy, also known as 00:27 Sickness. Not time for all those. 00:29 Here... take these... quick. What is this? 00:31 It's sunglasses, sun block, and a hat. 00:33 Hurry... it's coming. Put them on. 00:35 Ah, it's coming, it's coming! What... what is coming? 00:38 The S-U-N. The sun is coming 00:41 and you're going to die of skin cancer. 00:44 So you're concerned that I'm going to get skin cancer. 00:46 You? No, not really. Look: I am scaring these people 00:49 to death. Play along please. 00:50 I'm not playing along because if you're trying to conceal 00:52 the fact that there are healing and health properties 00:55 in the sun then you know what? You've got the wrong guy. 00:58 Oh no! Rico, your brain is already fried! 01:01 You're not even making sense. I'M not making sense? 01:04 You're telling people that they need to be afraid of the sun 01:07 and not go outside and experience it 01:10 then guess what? I think something has happened 01:12 to YOUR brain. But we're going to tell you that there is 01:14 absolutely healing and health benefits 01:17 to the sun and you need not be afraid of it. 01:20 You don't have to be afraid of the sun. 01:24 Or do you? Roll it! 02:00 Hello and welcome to the program today. 02:03 This is From Sickness To Health and I am your host Rico Hill. 02:06 I thank you for joining us here in the studio. 02:09 Today we have a riveting program to share with you. 02:13 We're going to be talking about sunshine or sunlight. 02:16 A lot of misconceptions about this, a lot of myths. 02:19 And joining me here in the studio to talk about it 02:22 I have Dr. Schubert Palmer who is chair of the cardiology 02:25 department there at White Memorial Medical Center 02:30 in Los Angeles, California. 02:32 He is also an author. He is a minister of the gospel 02:36 so we're going to perfectly blend these things together 02:38 as we talk about health as it relates to sunshine. 02:41 But also joining us we have with us 02:44 a good friend, Namiko Madden, who is a health evangelist. 02:48 And he has some really insightful things 02:51 from scripture to share with us as well. 02:53 So... welcome to the program, gentlemen. 02:55 Thank you. Thank you very much. 02:57 Let's jump right in, shall we? All right, let's talk about this: 02:59 sunshine. People are afraid of the sun, yes? 03:04 Um-hmm. It's recommended by a lot of dermatologists. 03:07 Some doctors put on copious amounts of SPF something or 03:13 another to cover the skin. Yes? Yes... right. 03:16 Before we get into all the things that we can share - 03:19 the health benefits and some other facts about the sun - 03:21 let's give... we want to be fair and balanced... 03:24 let's give our friend Sickness an opportunity 03:27 to share some things... what he's found out. 03:30 Let's hear from him. 03:33 Thank you Rico. Aah... look at her. 03:37 Nice and cozy in the daytime because she worked all night. 03:40 I love people that work all night. 03:42 You know, those who work at night... 03:45 They call it the graveyard shift and there's a reason for that: 03:49 because it gets you to the grave that much quicker. 03:53 Those working all night and sleeping all day... they don't 03:56 experience the healing benefits of the sunshine. 03:59 And then when they do try and go into the sunshine 04:01 they take their sunglasses and their sunscreen 04:05 to, get this: block out the sun. 04:08 Sleep on, night owl! Sleep the day away. 04:12 Back to you Rico. 04:14 Well, so according to Sickness 04:17 I mean people are... you know... they're working at night 04:21 and they're sleeping during the day. They're not getting 04:23 the benefits that you were just starting to talk about. 04:26 So we want to... I think we should let those people know 04:29 that there are some things that they could really benefit from 04:32 by actually getting out in the sun. You were starting with 04:35 some of the things that have to do with the heart. 04:36 Can you continue that? Yes, some interesting research that's 04:39 just mind boggling - they're still trying to sort out - 04:42 is looking at some of the effects between say vitamin D 04:46 which we have talked how it ties in with the sun 04:49 and what it has to do with heart disease. 04:51 They have found that in the non-Hispanic white 04:54 and the Chinese population 04:57 if your vitamin D levels - which they generally have a 05:00 higher level... baseline - if their levels are very low, 05:04 their chances of getting heart disease or heart attacks 05:07 are off the chart. Interestingly, it's not the same 05:10 with blacks and Hispanics whose levels are typically low 05:14 to begin with. Um-hmm. So there is a lot of information 05:17 that's coming out now about vitamin D and it's relationship 05:21 to heart disease and a host of other things. 05:23 Congestive heart failure. Again, on my street. 05:27 There is a direct link, and we're not quite sure 05:30 how the link all works... but there is a very definite link. 05:33 A link. Those who spend more time in the sun 05:36 have better heart health. Is that what you're saying? 05:39 That's what would be you would translate to, yes. 05:41 Excellent... continue. Now whenever you talk about 05:45 sunlight you have to talk about vitamin D. 05:48 It's like one of the most important elements. 05:51 And vitamin D, it's kind of interesting how you can make it. 05:55 It is... The body makes it. 05:57 It needs cholesterol. Oh wait a minute. So it doesn't 06:00 come from the sun? Because you always hear people 06:01 if we had an in-studio audience if I were to have them raise 06:06 their hand and say "How many of you believe 06:08 vitamin D comes directly from the sun? " 06:10 I believe more than half would say: "Yes, it comes from 06:14 the sun. " But it doesn't actually come from the sun. 06:17 There is a process that takes place by being 06:19 exposed to the sun. Talk about that as you go on. 06:21 Right under your skin as the sunlight hits the cholesterol 06:25 that is there, it gets converted to - by a process - 06:29 ultimately to vitamin D. 06:31 Vitamin D is a hormone essential for a host of things. 06:36 It slows down the growth of tumor cells for example. Oh wow! 06:41 And we will talk about the interesting correlation 06:44 between countries, or even here in the US where we are filming, 06:48 where there is the winter belt season 06:52 you can see colon cancer is off the chart. 06:55 Winter belt season? What is that exactly? 06:57 Well maybe I made up the word winter belt... but coming from 07:01 California, you know, the rest of the country is winter. 07:06 Amen, brother. So anyway when you look at 07:10 Michigan and going across where you have long winters - yes - 07:14 you can find a direct correlation with the rate of 07:17 colon cancer and a host of other cancers. 07:19 So researchers started to figure out: "Well, 07:22 what could be happening? " And it was obvious 07:24 you know. As they traced the path 07:29 they found that the vitamin D itself... 07:31 This kind of led to this research that has now 07:34 tied vitamin D to cancer prevention if you will. 07:39 Wow! And you know what? It's interesting that you should 07:42 say that because in just a few moments 07:44 we're actually going to show a newsclip that shows 07:48 the value of sunlight and vitamin D in fighting cancer. 07:52 But before that, we want to continue the discussion 07:55 and I want to bring Nwamiko into the conversation. 07:58 There are some facts about sunlight and sunshine. 08:03 Can you share some of those with us? 08:05 Right. I did some research on sunlight because I was preparing 08:08 a presentation. And one of the most amazing things 08:11 that we in science... or I shouldn't say we 'cause 08:14 I'm not really a scientist... but science doesn't completely 08:16 understand what light is. I mean, when you think about it 08:19 it's like it can make plants grow 08:21 and it can kill bacteria. Wow! 08:24 It can blind you but it's also what allows us to see. 08:27 And recently one of the things that they discovered 08:29 is that the wavelengths of light are actually - 08:32 and this is not the heat... the actual light - 08:34 will energize your mitochondria. 08:36 So your mitochondria are the cells, excuse me, 08:39 the battery... the powering engine for your cells, you know. 08:42 So light energizes your mitochondria. 08:44 Which helps us to do what? 08:46 Well it helps your body cells to operate. OK. 08:49 Your body is made up of the cells that it has 08:51 and the cells are all doing different things. 08:53 And when you have more energy when the cells have more energy 08:56 it gets better function. So I was preparing a presentation 09:00 because I wanted to know where the cancer rates were the lowest 09:04 across the board in the United States. 09:07 And you might be interested to know because this is your 09:10 home state - oh, OK - but the state of Arizona 09:14 across the board actually has the lowest rate of cancer. 09:17 Wait a minute; wait a minute; wait a minute. 09:19 This is confusing everybody because everyone's been 09:21 told that if you're getting too much sunlight 09:24 or sunshine and if you're in a state where there's a lot 09:27 of it, there's gotta be a higher incidence of skin cancer, right? 09:32 But hold on... hold that thought. OK. 09:33 Let's see what the news is saying, and then we'll come back 09:36 and we'll pick it up there, all right? OK. 09:37 So let's take a look. 09:40 We've known for many years that a lack of vitamins 09:42 can lead to sickness, but now an eye-opening study 09:46 is linking vitamin D and cancer in a way 09:48 we've never seen before. Morning anchor Anita Bland 09:51 explains why the common nutrient has never had so much 09:53 potential. It's NEW AT 6. 09:55 The studies just keep coming; the evidence mounting. 09:59 Low levels of vitamin D are now linked to so many 10:02 illnesses from breast, colon, and prostate cancer, 10:06 type I diabetes and asthma, 10:09 to multiple sclerosis and heart disease. 10:11 I even think of vitamin D as the fountain of youth 10:15 if you will in that it allows us to age well. 10:19 That's the hope, and nowhere is the evidence more compelling 10:22 than here in this laboratory completely devoted 10:25 to research on vitamin D. 10:27 Take a look at this flask. These are human breast cancer cells 10:31 taken from a woman who had breast cancer. 10:33 Now watch what happens when you add a potent form of vitamin D. 10:37 They appear to just shrivel up and die. 10:40 The longer they are treated with vitamin D the more of an 10:42 affect we see. What happens is that vitamin D enters the cells 10:45 and it triggers the cell death process. 10:49 It's similar to what we see when we treat cells with 10:51 tamoxifen: a drug used to treat breast cancer now. 10:54 And when researchers took human breast cancer cells 10:57 and injected them into mice, well the tumors in those mice 11:00 given vitamin D drastically decreased or disappeared. 11:05 Whoa... I am blown away! 11:09 You mean to tell me? Did you hear that? 11:11 The longer someone is treated with vitamin D 11:15 the less chance the cancer has to stand against it. 11:19 Um-hmm. That's amazing! Yes it is! 11:21 So why are we so afraid of the sun? 11:24 And even more spectacular in my mind is 20 min. of sunshine 11:30 talking about the vitamin D that an average person would get 11:33 that would be the... to get that amount from eggs 11:36 you'd have to eat 100 eggs. 11:38 Hmm. Sounded like you said 100 eggs. 11:40 Oh yes. Well you know it's interesting. They measure 11:43 the amount of sunlight or vitamin D in international 11:46 units, is that right? Um-hmm. And I've seen that 11:50 when you just get that 15 to 20 minutes 11:53 of sunlight it's like 10,000 international units. Right. 11:58 And I think with supplementation you can really only kind of get 12:01 about 2,000 to 5,000 in a dosage. Is that right? 12:05 Well they can sometimes make mega-doses... 12:08 You can make mega doses? But then again, you have 12:09 to be careful. 12:11 Oh, what's the... What's the cautionary tale there? 12:14 You can have too much of a good thing. 12:17 Better to get is from the source and get it in the time that 12:20 you need to get it. And I would say also: get it for free 12:23 because sunlight is free and you don't have to pay for it. 12:27 You know what? Whereas when you contrast with the vitamin 12:30 that you have to pay for you understand you just 12:33 definitely want to be easy on the wallet. 12:35 But what's really interesting, tying it with what we were 12:37 saying before, is that your home state of Arizona 12:40 is the state which has the lowest rates of cancer 12:42 according to the CDC, right? Uh-huh. 12:44 But I thought about that and I was like: "That's interesting. 12:46 I wonder why. " And I did some more research 12:48 and I found out that Arizona is actually the state 12:50 which has the most amount of sunlight hours in the year 12:53 out of all states. Well, you know, I can attest 12:56 to that because it is the hottest place I've ever seen. 12:59 I never have understood why a place that gets so hot 13:02 can also then get so cold. But whether hot or cold 13:05 you've got sunlight - yes - and that's a beautiful thing. 13:07 But I was going to say earlier that the sunlight IS FREE! 13:11 It's absolutely free. And I was looking at the cost 13:14 of just buying the vitamin D supplementation... 13:17 you know, supplements. It's expensive! Um-hmm. 13:21 And you can only get some for a little bit of a time. 13:24 So we want to do what God has already prepared for us... 13:28 and it is free. I think what we... I just need to interject. 13:32 As a physician here, having said all that 13:34 you know, there are cases where the supplementation 13:39 is appropriate... it's indicated. 13:42 You know, sometimes just thinking where the weather 13:46 does not permit to have the sunshine. 13:48 You need to do what you have to do. 13:51 But you can't be free. 13:55 Now, doc, you just brought up a good point. Now sometimes 14:00 there is a need for supplementation 14:01 but better to get the free. 14:04 What would be an indicator? Now can you check your vitamin D? 14:08 Could you just know it? Or what do you have to do to find out? 14:10 Remove the guesswork. You can have your physician 14:14 or your care provider do a vitamin D level. 14:17 And that's through blood work? And that's a blood test. 14:20 OK? Yes. Simple blood test. And there are numbers, right? 14:23 If you are somewhere between 25 and 50 that's a good number? 14:27 The numbers are supposed to be like 30 to 100 14:29 or some folk might might say 40 to 100. 14:32 And if you know you've not been... For example, 14:37 I work in the hospital so a lot of the nurses, 14:40 you know, graveyard shift. And in the graveyard shift 14:45 most of the time you go home you never see any sunlight. 14:47 I have some friends that have been near death 14:50 because their vitamin D levels were down to zero. 14:54 And yes, they had to be in the sunshine and they had 14:59 to get supplements in that case. 15:01 Wow! Wow! The point is it happens, and it is one of the 15:04 most frequently underdiagnosed conditions. 15:08 Hmm! 'Cause most people don't know their levels. 15:10 Absolutely. Unless you ask your doctor to actually test for that 15:14 you wouldn't know. That is correct. Is that right? 15:15 That is correct. So how much sunshine 15:18 should someone get? Because we want to be balanced 15:20 and we want to be correct in what we're talking about here. 15:23 But we don't want to tell people: "just go out there and 15:25 spend all day on their yacht" - right? 15:28 Um, so... Hold on a second. We want to make sure that people 15:31 are getting a healthy balanced amount of time 15:35 for sun exposure and not something that's going to be 15:37 unhealthy. So what is the right amount of time that? 15:41 You mentioned 20 minutes. Is that for everybody? 15:44 No it's not. Sunshine or sunlight has... 15:50 The process, you know... Some folks come endowed with 15:53 more melanin than others... the skin coloring. OK. 15:57 So the more melanin the darker skinned you are. 15:59 the longer it takes for the sunlight to penetrate, 16:02 to get through, to do its work with the cholesterol 16:05 under your skin. So, doc, I need a little more 16:08 than say Mwamiko, is that right? Actually it's the other way 16:11 around. He looks a little darker than you. 16:14 So he needs more - yes, yes - he needs more than I need. 16:17 Right. OK... OK. So... And if you are fair skinned 16:21 15-20 minutes is considered adequate. 16:24 If you are darker skinned then that might need to be pushed up 16:28 over half an hour or more... to an hour. 16:31 Aah... OK. Now I want to continue this, but let's... 16:35 We've heard what we are talking about here 16:37 and we've gotten some understanding, but then 16:40 we looked at the newsclip. Got some understanding from that. 16:43 We should revisit that as it relates to cancer. 16:46 But let's see what people are saying on the streets. 16:51 Sickness is out there. Let's see what they have to say. 16:55 Now I've got blue skin. You've got a little darker skin 16:59 than I do. Maybe I need some more sunshine 17:01 so I can get some skin cancer. What do you think of the sun? 17:03 Spending time in the sun? Umm... 17:07 Overrated, huh? Dangerous? Could be, yes... could be. 17:11 Do you know some people who have had too much sun exposure? 17:14 Not really. But people can overdo it. 17:17 People can overdo the sun. Yeah. 17:19 So maybe we could tell them to stay in their office 17:21 buildings all day long... stay safe. 17:24 You're looking at me like I'm crazy again, aren't you? 17:26 No, you need a certain amount of sun. 17:28 You need a certain amount? Do you know what you sound like? 17:29 You sound like my friend Rico. OK. 17:31 He likes to talk about sunshine - oh really? - 17:33 and how much we need. I think he's crazy and all these people 17:35 around here? Probably got skin cancer with advice like that. 17:38 You need to be careful. It's like practicing medicine 17:40 without a license. Um-hmm. Be careful of that. 17:43 What about this sunshine though? All you guys have got way too 17:45 much sunshine around here. What's that about? 17:46 Umm. The stuff will kill people. 17:49 Skin cancer... look at that! 17:51 That guy is suffering from severe skin cancer! 17:54 That's the sun's fault. 17:56 All right, what about the sunshine? 17:57 Umm. You ever get in the sunshine? Unh-um. 18:00 Unh-um. Why don't you like the sunshine? 18:02 I don't want to get any darker than this. You're tan enough. 18:04 You know what? Maybe I need a little more sunshine. 18:06 Naah... who needs the sunshine? It causes skin cancer. 18:09 Doesn't it cause skin cancer? Yep. 18:11 Too much "bathing" in it. Crystal clear: 18:13 the sun is bad for you! 18:17 Well... I think our understanding is correct. 18:20 People don't really spend much time in the sun, do they? 18:23 Hmm. They're afraid and, you know, they're just... 18:27 A lot of people just aren't getting recreation, 18:29 getting exercise. And if they do, even are 18:32 exercising in gymnasiums so they're not getting sunlight 18:35 there. I always say you get the triple threat when you 18:37 go out: you get some fresh air, you get some exercise 18:40 and some sunshine... all at the same time. Um-hmm. Right? 18:42 OK, let's get back to what we were talking about though 18:45 'cause sun exposure, the amount of time and all that 18:47 and different hues also play a part. 18:49 But then we saw in the news- clip and you mentioned that 18:52 vitamin D has an effect on the fighting of cancer 18:56 because it's actually shoring up the immune system, isn't it? 19:00 It's doing that and it's slowing the rate of growth. 19:03 Actually shrinking the rate of growth for certain cells... 19:08 the tumor cells. Wow! So this really is a clear point 19:12 that people need to get sunshine. 19:16 But should they go out there all day long and to the point 19:19 of almost like worshiping the sun? 19:22 'Cause some people do that, you know. 19:24 Some people go out there and they spend the whole day 19:26 and they just don't... you know... so what about that? 19:30 Or they just need a tanning salon just to have 19:32 the same effect. Right. Dangerous. 19:36 Why? Too much of a good thing. 19:38 Melanoma is tied directly to sunburn. 19:42 Um-hmm. A deadly cancer. Basal and squamous cell cancers. 19:47 They're the ones that are connected to over exposure 19:51 to the sunlight. So... like so many other things in life 19:55 there is benefit. 19:58 You could drown from drinking too much water 20:00 or you could have problems from taking too much 20:04 of something that is a good thing. Um-hmm. 20:07 So we want to always make sure that we are being... 20:10 doing things in moderation and we're being temperate. 20:13 And I might add one more thing, too, because sometimes 20:16 folks say: "I'm going to go out in the sunlight, enjoy this..." 20:19 and so you put on your skin blockers. Yes. 20:21 Well, if you're putting on your skin blockers 20:24 OK if you're going to be in the sun for 3 hours. 20:26 But that means that your body has not gotten any benefit 20:30 from being in the sun as far as vitamin D goes. 20:32 So if you want to get the benefit, you have to allow 20:36 some time for the natural sunlight to fall on your skin 20:39 and the skin only happens - unblocked - for a short time... 20:44 at least for your 20 to 30 minutes. Um-hmm. 20:46 So someone who's really really dark... they'd probably need to 20:49 be exposed to the sun without any kind of block 20:52 up to maybe 45 minutes to an hour maybe? 20:55 Maybe. Really dark complexioned? 20:57 Because I notice that sometimes you'll find 20:59 that in the African-American community that there is 21:02 very very low rates or levels of vitamin D. 21:06 And it's typically because we don't like to go out in the sun. 21:10 Some people have theories about that. 21:11 We don't like to hang out in the sun too much. 21:12 But... Yeah, the average level is around 19 21:15 in the African-American community. It's around 30 21:18 or so in that neighborhood for white 21:21 and Asian is around 35. 21:24 Hmm... 19? Um-hmm. Normal level being 30 to 100. 21:28 So that would require some supplements, wouldn't it? 21:31 It would require supplementing it with being out in the sun 21:34 to begin with - uh-huh - and you take it from there. 21:36 So you never want to go straight to the supplement. 21:38 You want to go to the source first. 21:40 That's how I like to do it. 21:42 I write for pills, but I... you know I have a heavy heart 21:46 every time I write a prescription. 21:48 Well, not so heavy... because I need the work. 21:52 Well, let's go to the source 21:54 because the Bible actually shows that the sun was important. 21:57 God created the sun. He spoke and it stood up in the sky 22:01 and it's been there ever since, hasn't it? Um-hmm. 22:03 And when we consider that when God took Adam 22:07 and He placed him in the garden 22:10 I always like to say He put him 22:11 in the eastern part of the garden. 22:14 Is there a reason why He put him in the 22:15 eastern part of the garden? 22:17 Catch the sunrise. The sun rises in the east, doesn't it? 22:20 Um-hmm. So this is a little indicator there in Genesis 22:23 that God had... He knew something that a lot of us 22:26 don't know: that Adam was going to need that burst of sunlight 22:31 to actually keep him in a healthy state. 22:34 And the studies show that the earlier part of the day 22:37 is when you get the best benefit for the sunlight. 22:40 I think they call it blue light. Um-hmm. Blue light... 22:43 where there is the ultra-violet rays - um-hmm - 22:45 entering into the eye and all that it does in terms of... 22:49 of setting the clocks of the body. 22:52 It's serotonin... stored in the eye. Yes, yes, yes. 22:55 And not to mention... Oh, I should mention it; 22:58 this is a program, I need to talk about... 23:00 But we need to talk about the fact that there is something 23:03 called liquid sunshine. Liquid sunshine. 23:05 Chlorophyll... Um-hmm... chlorophyll. 23:08 Again, going to the spiritual aspect of this 23:10 the sun actually is... this process called photosynthesis: 23:15 this is how our plants grow. 23:16 And they store up the energy from the sun 23:19 and then they transfer it to us. 23:22 So again, in the diet that God gave in the Bible - 23:27 the first one being fruits, nuts, grains, and seeds 23:29 in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 29 23:32 we see that He adds the leafy herbs or the greens 23:37 to the diet, and chlorophyll was a big part of that. 23:40 So again, God is doing something with sunshine 23:44 and sunlight for our health. Um-hmm. The Bible says 23:47 that He shall be like "the Sun of righteousness 23:50 rising with healing in His wings. " 23:53 So we see that there are some spiritual applications that can 23:56 be made. What do you all think about this? 23:58 Yeah. One of my favorite texts is I Peter 2:9 24:02 which is a message directly for this generation which says: 24:16 And as we were just discussing, that's physical light 24:19 but I believe it's also spiritual light. 24:22 Because an unenlightened person definitely won't make the right 24:25 choices as pertains to their spiritual 24:27 and their physical life. 24:28 So God wants us to experience both: 24:31 not only the sun 24:34 but also the Son. 24:38 Mmmm. 24:41 Getting from sun worship - S- U-N worship - 24:45 to worship... I like that. S- O-N worship. 24:49 Well I think we can conclude that 24:52 we don't have to be afraid of the S-U-N 24:56 nor do we have to be afraid of the S-O-N. 25:00 You kind of have to have your spelling right on this, 25:03 know what I mean? But nonetheless, 25:04 we're talking about two entities that give us warmth, 25:09 give us heat. It gives us life, yes? 25:13 And healing. And healing. Healing in the Son. 25:16 There's healing in the Son. In fact, we quoted - um-hmm - 25:20 Malachi 4:2 which says that the Sun of righteousness 25:24 shall come with healing in His wings. " 25:26 And it spells it S-U-N, but we know it's also the S-O-N. 25:30 So until next time, we invite you to tune in 25:34 for another program where we will be talking about 25:36 how you can live a healthy life according to God's Word 25:40 and good science. Thank you so much for being with us. 25:43 We'll see you next time. 25:48 In Malachi chapter 4 and verse 2 25:50 the Bible states: "But unto you that fear My name shall 25:54 the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in His wings. " 25:58 Friends, we need not fear the sun. 26:01 Neither should we revere it or even worship it 26:05 as the ancients did. However, 26:08 a healthy, balanced respect for the sun is necessary. 26:12 Now when God says: "He that fears My name... " 26:15 well He doesn't mean that we're supposed to be afraid of Him 26:18 in the traditional sense of fear. 26:20 No! He's talking about reverencing and standing in 26:23 awe of His power and majesty, His name. 26:27 Why? Because when you consider that big ball of fire 26:31 that's in the sky, it is just a faint representation 26:35 of His power and glory. Not to burn you or burn you up 26:40 but to heal you... to warm you. 26:43 Even sustain life as we know it. 26:47 So we should reverence and appreciate His name 26:51 because He created that great big ball of fire 26:56 for our benefit. In fact, you can go out 27:00 and you can experience the sun. Not only the S-U-N 27:04 but the S-O-N Son. 27:08 Both of them have healing powers. 27:12 Well there you have it. 27:14 Do you have anything else to say? 27:16 Nothing else to say as long as people are using 27:19 sun block, sunglasses, and hats like this 27:22 I think people will be just fine. No, no, no, no. 27:24 Please, keep your stuff. I've had enough of that. 27:26 The thing is is that your whole scare tactic 27:29 it's not working. Oh, it's working very nicely. 27:33 People in their cars on the way to work, 27:36 in the house all day... they're never out in the sun. 27:39 I think I'm winning. 27:41 Well, regardless of what he just said 27:43 our bodies were designed by God 27:47 to sleep when it's night 27:50 but during the day we are to be awake, outside 27:53 enjoying and experiencing the wonderful benefits 27:57 of sunlight. Well that's our show for today. 28:00 And I'd like to leave you with this as always: 28:03 III John 2 says: "Beloved, I wish above all things 28:06 that thou mayest prosper and be in health. " 28:10 Go out and experience the sun... both of them. 28:14 I'm Rico Hill, and I'm the blue guy. 28:17 Maranatha. |
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