It Is Written

The Big C

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Participants: John Bradshaw (Host), Neil Nedley

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00:00 ♪ [It Is Written Theme] ♪ ♪ [Dramatic] ♪
00:06 >: It has stood the test of time.
00:12 God's book, the Bible.
00:16 Still relevant in today's complex world.
00:22 It Is Written.
00:25 Sharing hope around the globe.
00:36 John Bradshaw: This is It Is Written.
00:39 I'm John Bradshaw.
00:39 Thanks for joining me today.
00:42 There are certain phrases that are always going to be
00:46 memorable.
00:47 One of them might be, "It's a boy."
00:50 Another one might be, "Congratulations,
00:53 you are the lucky winner."
00:55 Another memorable phrase that far too many people
00:59 have heard, a phrase that's memorable for all the wrong
01:02 reasons is, "I regret to inform you that it's cancer."
01:09 The Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
01:11 In the beginning God created.
01:13 He didn't create us to get cancer.
01:15 He created us to live long and well.
01:17 Jesus came to give us life more abundantly.
01:20 Cancer is an ever present challenge in this world,
01:23 it is often deadly.
01:26 My guest today, Dr. Neil Nedley, the president of
01:30 Nedley Health Solutions.
01:31 Dr. Nedley, thanks for joining me today.
01:32 Neil Nedley: Thank you.
01:34 Great to be here.
01:35 JB: What's cancer?
01:36 NN: Cancer is an abnormal cell that grows out of control.
01:41 JB: How does it get that way?
01:43 Do we know?
01:44 NN: Yes.
01:45 I mean, there has to be a change in the genetic material
01:50 in the cell.
01:52 And that change in the genetic material can then produce a
01:55 cancerous cell and as long as that cell can reproduce,
01:59 it can grow out of control and spread to vital organs.
02:02 JB: Okay.
02:02 Out of control cells.
02:03 NN: Out of control cell.
02:05 JB: And describe to me what happens.
02:06 The out of control cells spread to, let's pick on the pancreas,
02:12 pancreatic cancer is a really dangerous cancer.
02:14 NN: It is, yeah.
02:15 JB: So, what happens?
02:16 You've got a pancreas.
02:18 A cancer cell lodges there.
02:21 NN: Um-hum.
02:22 JB: Very frequently somebody dies.
02:24 What happened between there and there?
02:26 What did the cancer do?
02:28 What actually happens with cancer?
02:29 Whether it's the lung or some other place.
02:32 NN: Well, it eventually spreads to vital organs that will take
02:35 your life.
02:36 JB: Those abnormal cells somehow inhibit the function of that
02:40 organ.
02:41 NN: Correct.
02:42 JB: Okay.
02:43 NN: Yeah.
02:44 JB: How big a problem is cancer in the United States?
02:46 NN: One out of every two men will get it at some point in
02:49 their life.
02:51 One out of every three women will get it at some point in
02:54 their life.
02:55 And one out of every four deaths in this country is from cancer.
03:00 It's the number one cause of death in people under the age of
03:02 85.
03:04 And it kills people of all ages.
03:06 A lot of people are not aware that the pediatric population,
03:10 second leading cause of death in children is cancer.
03:15 Ah, and so it affects people of all ages, it's not, you know,
03:19 age specific.
03:22 Ah, and it needs to be eliminated.
03:26 JB: Babies can have cancer.
03:28 NN: They can.
03:29 JB: Now, they do anything to deserve, I don't mean deserve,
03:32 to earn that or to deserve that, so cancer can strike
03:37 indiscriminately.
03:39 NN: It can.
03:40 JB: But at the same time, what we know is that much lung cancer
03:44 is attributable to smoking.
03:47 NN: Correct.
03:47 JB: We know that much bowel and colon cancer is attributable to
03:50 diet.
03:51 NN: Correct.
03:52 JB: So there are ways that cancer can be, I'll just use the
03:57 word avoided.
03:59 NN: Um-hum.
03:59 Even in the pediatric population, an infant getting
04:02 cancer for instance, or a two- or three-year-old, that's often
04:07 due to a genetic mutation that occurred in the sperm of the
04:11 father as a result of his bad diet.
04:16 And so, at the time of conception.
04:18 And so a lot of these pediatric cancers actually can be traced
04:22 back to the habits of parents.
04:26 And so that's something to keep in mind.
04:27 They did nothing wrong, but mutations can be passed along to
04:31 children that the parents themselves don't have by a poor
04:35 lifestyle.
04:36 JB: Can I ask you, what age group is most susceptible to
04:44 getting cancer?
04:46 NN: Well, the older we get the more susceptible we are.
04:49 So, in general, age, and part of that is, there's a greater
04:54 chance that our nucleus and the genetic material are going to be
04:58 changed by given enough time and given enough, you know,
05:03 lifestyle circumstances to help produce this.
05:06 JB: Okay, so you're 15 years old, 20, 25, 30, 35, you're
05:11 healthy, and Grandpa just died of cancer and he was 79.
05:19 And you're saying to yourself, I want to be 79 and well,
05:24 what should a person be doing to do their very best to
05:30 avoid cancer later in life?
05:33 What are things you can do?
05:34 NN: Well, there's two primary mechanisms preventing cancer.
05:39 One is by avoiding carcinogens and, two, is boosting and
05:45 maintaining the immune system.
05:47 JB: Okay.
05:47 A carcinogen is a cancer causing agent, correct?
05:49 NN: That's right.
05:50 JB: Okay, what are some carcinogens?
05:52 NN: Well, you mentioned one, tobacco smoke is a big one.
05:56 Thirty percent of all cancers in our country are caused by
06:01 tobacco.
06:02 JB: That's a lot.
06:03 NN: That's a lot.
06:04 So, that's a huge, huge number.
06:07 Alcohol is actually a carcinogen.
06:09 A lot of people don't realize it, but the American Cancer
06:12 Society recommends zero alcohol.
06:15 Alcohol increases your risk of breast cancer significantly, of
06:19 colorectal cancer, of cancer of the liver, the larynx,
06:24 even the esophagus.
06:26 And so, thousands of deaths are caused in this country every
06:30 year simply due to alcohol causing a cancer or
06:36 significantly increasing a risk.
06:39 And that's something that the media doesn't broadcast.
06:43 You know, one of the things I know and that's why it's so nice
06:45 to be on a program like It Is Written that's willing to,
06:48 to tell all of the truth and the whole story.
06:52 But, you know, on the typical evening news show, the only time
06:55 you'll hear about alcohol is when it's shown to reduce the
06:59 risk of heart disease.
07:00 JB: Right.
07:01 NN: And it is true that if you drink enough alcohol to get
07:05 cirrhosis of the liver, you will only have a 25% chance of dying
07:09 of heart disease compared to the general population.
07:12 But you'll have many fold increased risk of dying, if you
07:16 don't die of the cirrhosis if you drink that much alcohol,
07:19 you're going to die of cancer pretty soon anyways.
07:22 And not only just cancer of the liver, but there may be other
07:24 cancers that come about.
07:27 So, so those are two big ones right there, alcohol
07:30 and tobacco.
07:31 But there's others as well.
07:32 JB: Let's talk about some of the others.
07:34 Alcohol and tobacco I've often mentioned to people.
07:39 Imagine a world without tobacco and somebody turned up in,
07:44 I don't know, Congress or the World Fair,
07:47 I don't care and said, look, I have this great product.
07:50 You'll enjoy it, it'll give you a rush, it'll give you a buzz,
07:53 you'll think you're cool, however, however,
07:57 it'll cause cancer, it'll stink, it'll cost you money,
08:01 it'll be antisocial, folks will die in their droves,
08:06 the product would never be allowed to make it to the
08:08 market.
08:09 NN: That's true.
08:10 JB: Yet today, here we are.
08:10 Same with alcohol.
08:12 These things are just a scourge.
08:14 I mean, no offense intended to those who are hooked or who use
08:17 this, but, my goodness.
08:18 They're a societal ill.
08:20 NN: Yeah, absolutely.
08:22 JB: The less the better.
08:23 NN: Yeah.
08:24 JB: But there are probably other carcinogens as well.
08:26 What might some others be?
08:27 NN: Well, one of them is benzopyrene.
08:30 That's produced by charcoal broiling meat.
08:34 And if you charcoal broil meat, the amount of benzopyrene
08:37 produced is the equivalent to what comes from 600 cigarettes
08:41 smoked, increase the risk of leukemia, increases the risk of
08:45 stomach cancer.
08:48 And often people overlook that.
08:49 In the South, you know, charcoal broiling is a major thing and
08:54 they're producing carcinogens in the process.
08:56 JB: Let me ask you this question.
08:59 This is one chunk of charcoal broiled meat has the same effect
09:05 as, or the same amount as 600ó NN: Six hundred cigarettes,
09:07 yeah.
09:08 JB: Now, is this known?
09:11 Or only people like you know this?
09:15 NN: Well, it should be more widely known, that's why we're
09:18 educating people on the media here today.
09:20 JB: Where did you, where did you find this statistic?
09:22 Did you have to dig under a rock to find this?
09:24 Or is this relatively accessible information?
09:28 NN: No, it's accessible information.
09:29 Yeah.
09:30 JB: But it's not being shouted from the rooftops.
09:32 NN: It isn't and that's part of the sad things in our society
09:35 today.
09:36 Some things are politically incorrect to shout from the
09:39 rooftops because they might affect someone's business or
09:44 someone's taste buds, but in reality we should be much more
09:48 interested in their health.
09:50 JB: Particularly in a country that's grappling unsuccessfully
09:54 with a healthcare crisis.
09:56 NN: Exactly.
09:56 JB: Now, the fact is, too, that there are many people who just
10:02 get cancer out of the blue, even though they've lived healthy
10:05 lives, that's true.
10:06 We'll talk about that and more to do with this.
10:09 The Big C.
10:10 Cancer is so dreaded, it's often simply referred to by a
10:14 euphemism and some people won't even say the word, because it's
10:18 such a dreadful thing.
10:21 However, there is hope, hope for somebody with cancer of course,
10:26 and there's hope for people who don't have cancer that they need
10:30 never get it, if you make some simple lifestyle changes and
10:34 live the life that God desires for you to live.
10:37 We'll have more in just a moment.
10:41 >: In Matthew 4:4, the Word of God says, It is written,
10:45 Man shall not live by bread alone,
10:47 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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11:22 JB: I had to smile when I read that a group was claiming
11:24 Peter didn't really walk on water, but that the water had
11:27 turned to ice and that Peter had actually walked on ice.
11:31 Now, here's what Matthew 14:29 says: "And when Peter was come
11:34 down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus."
11:38 Now, humanly speaking, you can't walk on water.
11:40 But Peter really did because it was really a miracle.
11:44 We serve a great God who created the world out of nothing and can
11:47 still work miracles today.
11:49 I hope you choose to believe today in the God of the
11:51 miraculous.
11:53 If God is bound by our human explanations then he's a very
11:56 small God.
11:58 I'm glad we serve a big God who's still able to do the
12:01 miraculous today.
12:03 Today trust a God who's able to do big things.
12:08 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written.
12:10 Let's live today by every word.
12:15 JB: This is It Is Written, I'm John Bradshaw.
12:17 Thanks for joining me today.
12:19 My guest today is Dr. Neil Nedley, the president of
12:21 Nedley Health Solutions.
12:23 Dr. Nedley, really we're looking at a health solution today.
12:26 NN: Yes.
12:26 JB: We're discussing what many people call the Big C, cancer,
12:29 a dreadful disease.
12:31 You mentioned earlier, one in two men will develop cancer
12:34 sometime in their lives.
12:35 Didn't you say one in three women?
12:38 NN: One in three women.
12:39 JB: That's a gigantic amount.
12:40 NN: Yes.
12:40 JB: Do you feel that many people just think it's an
12:42 inevitability?
12:43 NN: Oh, yes.
12:44 Most people think that they just have to wait and hope that they
12:48 don't get it.
12:49 But they don't really realize there's things that they can do
12:52 now to, to lower that risk.
12:54 JB: What do we know about statistics or experiences or
12:58 something that show these lifestyle choices actually make
13:03 a difference?
13:04 NN: Well, Harvard states that 80, up to 80% of cancers are
13:08 actually preventable through lifestyle change.
13:12 JB: That's Harvard?
13:13 NN: And so, that's right, and so we know that we can make a
13:16 difference if we're really doing everything right in, in 80% of
13:21 cases and that's a pretty significant number.
13:25 JB: That really is.
13:25 NN: But it is true that there's another 20% that we don't know
13:29 how to prevent at this point in time.
13:31 That we may learn more as we study this more and find out
13:35 that we might be able to prevent 90%, but right now the most we
13:39 can prevent is 80% of cancer.
13:41 JB: That's a pretty good number.
13:42 NN: That's hundreds of thousands of deaths spared per year.
13:45 But we're talking of hundreds of thousands of deaths per year
13:50 that could be spared if people would, A, become educated about
13:56 how they can prevent it, and, B, utilize their God-given power of
14:00 self-control to change their lifestyle accordingly.
14:04 JB: Are there other carcinogens that are somewhat prominent or
14:09 prevalent that we could avoid somehow?
14:11 NN: There's a number of cancers that come about as a result of
14:16 eating meat in particular.
14:19 Colon cancer, for instance.
14:20 Harvard showed that if you eat meat every day you have a 142%
14:25 increased risk of developing that.
14:28 If you eat meat five or six times a, a week, you lower that
14:33 risk to 84% increased risk.
14:36 If you're two to four times a week, you're down to 50%.
14:41 But even if you eat it one time a month, your risk is 30% higher
14:46 compared with someone who doesn't eat it at all.
14:49 So, their conclusion was, the more meat, the higher the risk
14:52 of cancer, and the more frequently it's consumed,
14:55 the higher the risk.
14:57 But they also concluded that there's no safe level per se.
15:02 So, in other words, as you eliminate it, your risk goes
15:05 down significantly, and it's not just colon cancer.
15:08 We now know a number of other cancers are associated with meat
15:13 intake.
15:14 JB: That's a pretty simple change.
15:17 NN: Pretty simple change.
15:18 Just being a vegetarian one or two days a week, you go from
15:20 140% down to 80%.
15:23 So you can spare yourself a decreased risk of 60% right
15:28 there by being a vegetarian one or two days a week.
15:30 And if you can do it one or two days a week, and that's good,
15:33 then stretch it out to maybe three or four and keep moving.
15:36 JB: Do we know anything about exercise and
15:39 lowering your cancer risk?
15:40 NN: Yes, we do.
15:42 Exercise does lower the cancer risk.
15:44 Actually, it does that by boosting your immune system, and
15:50 so that way if you have a tiptop immune system, hopefully your
15:53 cancer cell will be recognized as a, a foreign cell and be
15:59 destroyed by your immune system.
16:01 And exercise seems to help in several ways.
16:03 JB: Let's drill down here on, on this aspect of it, because,
16:06 first thing, recognizing and avoiding carcinogens.
16:11 I was going to say to you, perhaps that second thing would
16:13 be building your immune system.
16:15 NN: Correct.
16:15 Yes.
16:16 JB: So, exercise is one of those ways.
16:18 There must be a plethora of things we can do to strengthen
16:23 our immune system.
16:24 NN: There are.
16:25 JB: What are some of those things.
16:26 NN: Well, diet is one of the ways.
16:28 There's, there's wonderful dietary changes that can help
16:31 boost your immune system.
16:33 JB: Okay.
16:33 What are some of the things that people might want to,
16:35 let's just say eat, to help the immune system.
16:38 NN: Eating foods high in what we call carotenoid.
16:42 JB: Okay.
16:43 I'm going to encourage somebody, if you've got a moment and you
16:46 can find a pen or something, make a list here of, I'm going
16:49 to go to the store and make sure I buy some of these things.
16:52 I'm going to add these to my diet.
16:54 It's not hard.
16:55 No one's going to ask you to jump through hoops here.
16:57 This won't be difficult.
16:58 NN: That's right.
16:59 JB: Foods that are high in carotenoids.
17:01 NN: Yeah.
17:01 Carotenoids, in fact, studies have shown that even if you're a
17:05 smoker, if you're on a high carotinoid diet you'll only have
17:09 one-third the risk of developing smoking related cancers.
17:13 JB: That's magnificent.
17:14 Foods high in carotenoids.
17:17 Okay, what are those foods?
17:19 This is life and death.
17:20 So, what are those foods.
17:21 NN: Yes, yes.
17:22 They're going to be your vitamin A foods.
17:25 Most of them are going to have a yellow or orange hue,
17:29 vegetables, for instance.
17:30 JB: Squash?
17:31 NN: Squash is loaded.
17:32 Orange yams.
17:34 JB: Sweet potatoes?
17:35 NN: Yeah, the sweet potatoes are loaded with carotenoids.
17:38 JB: So, eating by colors, really?
17:40 NN: Yeah.
17:41 JB: Go to the supermarket and buy the yellow and the orange
17:43 stuff.
17:43 NN: Yeah.
17:44 Apricots.
17:45 JB: Carrots?
17:46 NN: Carrots, yup.
17:46 Carrots would be a good source of carotenoids.
17:49 I think that's where carotenoids got its name from.
17:52 JB: Yeah, I'm wondering about that.
17:55 NN: Yeah, it's from that, that nice orange vegetable there.
17:56 And actually cooked carrots have more carotenoids
17:58 than raw carrots.
18:00 JB: No kidding.
18:00 Usually they tell us that raw is the way, the way to go.
18:03 NN: Well, raw will give you more vitamin C, because cooking will
18:07 destroy about half the vitamin C, but actually it gives you a
18:10 little more of some nutrients like carotenoids.
18:12 JB: That's okay then.
18:13 That's all right.
18:15 So, foods with carotenoids in them, consumed,
18:20 will boost the immune system.
18:22 NN: Um-hum.
18:22 One of those carotenoids is called lycopene.
18:25 Lycopene is what makes tomatoes red and strawberries red.
18:30 And studies show those with the highest levels of lycopene in
18:34 their blood stream have the lowest rates of pancreatic
18:36 cancer in the world.
18:39 So, that's an, an interesting finding as well.
18:42 JB: That is.
18:43 NN: And it's much better to get your lycopene from your fruits
18:45 and vegetables than trying to buy lycopene in a bottle.
18:48 JB: So, so tomatoes.
18:51 Or what some would refer to as tomatoes.
18:53 I think there's probably more lycopene in a tomato than a
18:55 tomato, but that's just me.
18:58 That's good for you in terms of fighting cancer.
19:01 NN: Yes.
19:02 Yes, absolutely.
19:03 JB: Fantastic.
19:03 What else can a person do?
19:05 This is so significant.
19:07 What we're learning is that you aren't doomed to get cancer.
19:10 NN: That's right.
19:11 That's right.
19:11 JB: This is something that you can avoid.
19:13 You quoted 80% of cancers can be avoided.
19:17 That's magnificent.
19:19 NN: Up to.
19:19 JB: Okay.
19:20 Carotenoids.
19:21 What else enhances the immune system?
19:23 NN: Vitamin C foods will enhance it as well.
19:27 Vitamin C, if you're getting more than 250 milligrams a day
19:31 in your diet, it protects your sperm if you're a male from
19:37 genetic damage, so that you won't have the risk of
19:41 actually passing cancer along to your offspring.
19:45 And so, 250 milligrams a day will do that.
19:48 Now, the RDA is 60 or 90 milligrams, and so you need a
19:53 little bit more, but it's easy to get 250 milligrams a day if
19:56 you're eating foods that are rich in vitamin C.
19:59 JB: The best way to get plenty of vitamin C is?
20:02 NN: They're raw fruits and vegetables.
20:04 So, even raw broccoli has 40 milligrams per serving.
20:08 An orange will have 60 milligrams.
20:11 JB: Kiwi fruit?
20:12 NN: Kiwi is even more yet in vitamin C.
20:16 And then some of your highest sources are strawberries.
20:19 You know, you can get, you know, 140 milligrams from
20:22 strawberries.
20:23 Red bell peppers are also good sources of vitamin C.
20:26 Raw red bell peppers.
20:27 JB: This is fun.
20:28 I mean, these are foods people like.
20:29 NN: Yeah.
20:29 JB: Strawberries, kiwi fruit, I mean, what's not to like
20:32 about that?
20:33 NN: Exactly.
20:34 JB: Okay.
20:34 Well that's good.
20:35 NN: And your citrus as well.
20:36 JB: Yeah.
20:37 Well, that's an enjoyable way.
20:37 Are there other things?
20:38 We've mentioned vitamin C and the carotenoids, lycopene.
20:44 What else?
20:45 NN: Vitamin E.
20:46 JB: What's that in?
20:47 NN: Vitamin E is going to be in more of your plant fat
20:52 substances.
20:53 Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin.
20:55 So, almonds, high in vitamin E.
20:58 JB: What if I roast those almonds?
21:00 Is it still high in vitamin E?
21:01 NN: It's still high in vitamin E.
21:03 JB: All right.
21:03 NN: Yeah, you don't destroy vitamin E by cooking.
21:05 JB: Almond butter, still vitamin E?
21:07 NN: Yup.
21:08 Yup.
21:08 JB: Awesome.
21:09 NN: Yup.
21:09 Good source.
21:10 And vitamin E can also, there's evidence that it can help
21:14 prevent skin cancer as well, in adequate amounts, as long as
21:20 we're also getting adequate amounts of A and C.
21:23 Often we talk about A, C, and E together as having a more
21:26 augmented effect in helping to potentially prevent certain
21:30 cancers.
21:31 JB: One of the best things we can do for our health is wear a
21:34 hat.
21:35 NN: Yes.
21:36 And of course there, what they're doing is getting
21:38 radiation from the sun that's actually changing the genetic
21:41 material.
21:42 JB: Right.
21:43 NN: In your cells.
21:43 First it starts out with a sunburn and then as that genetic
21:47 material continues to multiply over time, it actually can turn
21:50 into a cancer.
21:51 JB: So, if you've had cancer, and I have, and it's not a lot
21:55 of fun, and in my case particularly the cure not
21:59 especially enjoyable, however, the cure for the cancer of sin,
22:06 no negative side effects.
22:08 NN: That's right.
22:09 JB: A very positive journey.
22:10 NN: Yes.
22:12 JB: And that is faith in Jesus Christ.
22:14 NN: Yes.
22:15 JB: You know, with cancer, when you're looking to get out of
22:16 cancer, people are thinking typically, chemotherapy, which
22:20 can be brutal, radiation, which can be really brutal, but if you
22:26 want to get over the side effects of sin, you come to
22:32 Jesus Christ through faith.
22:33 And, by the way, I don't scare anybody.
22:34 Chemo and radiation can in certain circumstances be
22:38 somewhat moderate to experience, depending on the chemo and the
22:42 radiation.
22:43 But what God asks us to do if we have sin, can face our sins and
22:49 through faith in Jesus Christ believe we are forgiven.
22:53 And we're not just forgiven, but we're cleansed, and that disease
22:56 of sin, you know, one day it'll be eradicated.
23:00 Thank God.
23:01 Cancer and all physical diseases will be eradicated as well.
23:05 But we're looking forward to an eternity without sin.
23:09 NN: Exactly.
23:09 JB: Thankfully we can look forward, no way, we can
23:12 experience a present without sin as well if we come to Christ and
23:18 accept Jesus and then, and then get the Word of God in us.
23:22 David said something phenomenal in Psalm 119 when he said,
23:28 "Thy word have I hidden my heart that I might not
23:30 sin against you."
23:32 So, the Bible, the Word of God, Christ in us, actually possesses
23:37 the capacity to keep us from going back into sin.
23:41 NN: It's boosting the spiritual immune system.
23:43 JB: Yes, exactly right.
23:44 NN: And then we also want to avoid spiritual carcinogens as
23:47 well.
23:48 JB: That's right.
23:49 NN: So that we don't get the, the cancer of sin.
23:51 JB: And they're everywhere.
23:52 NN: Yes.
23:53 JB: I want you to know though that as prevalent as sin seems
23:56 to be, as powerful as the enemy of souls seems to be, 1 John 4,
24:01 in verse 4, promises you: "Greater is he that is in you,
24:07 than he that is in the world."
24:10 Now, you've learned enough today that you can go from this point
24:12 on looking hopefully into the future and say, if I implement
24:17 some changes here, if they're needed, then perhaps I don't
24:21 have to encounter the Big C down the line.
24:23 It's no guarantee, it's no guarantee,
24:26 but you can improve your odds.
24:27 I tell you what is a guarantee and that is when you accept
24:30 Jesus Christ into your heart by faith, you are guaranteed
24:35 to be cleansed of sin.
24:36 You need not live with it in your life and you can look
24:40 forward to a future that is sin free and filled with the
24:45 presence of Christ.
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26:14 JB: Dr. Nedley, thanks for sharing with us today.
26:16 NN: Thank you.
26:17 JB: What you've shared is potentially life changing,
26:21 lifesaving.
26:23 Thanks for joining with us.
26:24 Now we're going to pray together and ask that God would take what
26:27 we've heard and make it part of who and what we are.
26:29 Pray with me, please.
26:31 Our Father in Heaven, as today we have discussed important
26:36 principles, allow us through Christ to live the abundant life
26:41 as far as possible free from the diseases of this world.
26:45 In fact, I recall that you said to your people back at the time
26:50 of the exodus that you would put none of the diseases upon them
26:54 that the Egyptians had, if they would listen to you.
26:59 Let us listen to you as far as your will will allow, allow us
27:04 to live without illness and then with all of the health
27:08 you give us, give us grace to live for you.
27:11 Thank you for delivering us from the cancer of sin.
27:16 Let Jesus return and put an end to the misery of this world,
27:20 the sin of this world.
27:22 And let him usher in an eternity where we will enjoy sin free
27:27 life forever.
27:28 We pray in Jesus' name.
27:32 Amen.
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27:50 JB: Thank you for joining me today.
27:51 I look forward to seeing you again next time.
27:53 Until then, remember it is written,
27:56 man shall not live by bread alone,
27:59 but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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