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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 Let's get healthy part 3. The title of my message, when or healing happens when. You could also say when healing happens. So the notes look like this. Fill in the blanks. We spent the first 2 parts of this series0:24 deconstructing what's going on in our health industry, what's going on in our bodies. I I told you in the first week what food not to trust. Get rid of those ultra0:36 processed foods. I I'm hoping, trusting that you're doing that. Basically, it's very simple. Just avoid all the middle aisles of the supermarket. That's all you gotta do. Just avoid that. Just go around the edge. Okay?0:47 It's a very simple rule as well. If you can leave the food out exposed to air and even the bacteria will not eat it, don't eat it yourself. Okay? That's a very simple rule. Then we0:58 deconstructed the Food and Drug Administration, what's going on with our government and how it has failed us over the last 50 to 60, maybe even longer years. We're gonna do a little bit of that today. So we're gonna1:09 continue deconstructing, but I'm turning a page in this part of the series. From deconstruction to construction, not what we shouldn't do, but now what we should do. We will get to that in a moment, but I wanna bring1:20 this case to us from Mark chapter 5 of a woman who is probably representative of a large portion of this generation's1:31 experience when it comes to health. This is a woman who has, I think, our experience. And her story is told in the context of somebody else's story. Mark chapter 5 opens1:43 with, or Mark chapter 5 22 opens with a narrative that a guy named Jarius, a synagogue ruler, comes up to Jesus, and he's a synagogue ruler, which means he was a local pastor. He1:55 was a local church leader. And he's got a daughter, and the daughter's at home, and she's on the verge of death. She's about to die, and he's desperate. This is a man who would have been respected, would have been2:05 revered, would have been a a very compelling figure in the society and the culture. He comes to Jesus. He says, my little daughter's at the point of death, but if you come and if you lay your hands on her, she will2:17 live. Verse 24 says, and he went with him, and notice what it says, and a great crowd followed him and thronged. If you got your notes out, underline thronged about him. Jesus2:29 is surrounded by people. Jesus was a walking, spectacle of God's glory. Everywhere he went, you never know what was going to happen. John's gospel tells2:41 us that what we have written down in the gospels is just a a a smidge, just a small amount of the works and the miracles that Jesus did. And so we don't even we can't2:53 even com comprehend how many things that he took care of and how many healings he manifested and did in people's lives. And so this crowd is just pressing in. You've got Jesus, this walking glory3:05 of God person, this this God the son person with miracles, signs, and wonders just emanating from him at every direction. Then you've got Jairus, this local esteemed leader of the synagogue, and he's3:16 walking, and everybody's going, what's gonna happen? And in that moment, the scripture says, verse 25, look, and there was a woman who had a discharge of blood for how long? 12 years. Now ironically,3:28 Jairus' daughter is 12 years old. So this this sickness that she has had has been in her body for as long as Jairus' daughter has been alive. But I would suggest to you3:40 that this woman has more issues than we realize on the surface of the text. Because this is a Jewish first century culture, and they were all about keeping the law. The law had to be kept.3:53 And according to the law, this woman was in worse condition than just a bleeding condition. According to the law, Leviticus 15 25 says this, if a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, and I would4:05 say 12 12 years is many days, and it says not at the time of her menstrual impurity, that's the regular cycle, if she has a discharge beyond the time of your impure of her impurity, all the days somebody say4:16 all the days. All the days. All the days of the discharge. And as long as she has it, she shall continue in what? As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. And4:28 was not on the screen, but is in the text following verse 25 of Leviticus Leviticus 15 is this, every bed on which she lies becomes unclean. And anybody who touches the bed on which4:40 she lies, they also become unclean. So this woman did not just have a physical infirmity, she had a social contagion. Not only was she sick in her4:52 body, ladies and gentlemen, listen to me. She was a walking virus. She couldn't be in community. She couldn't be around people. She had to stay at home. She had to wait for her5:04 healing to happen. According to the law, she was she was ostracized and and marginalized by society, supposed to live in isolation for as long as5:16 she had this sickness. And now the verse that I want us to really lean in on. Verse 26. Look what it says. And she had suffered, what?5:28 Much under oh, say it like you know this on the screen and you can read. Come on somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She had suffered much under5:39 many physicians. And not only that, but because she put so much trust in doctors and what they would try to do to fix her, she had spent all that she had. And instead of getting better, she5:51 what? She got worse. And I wonder, in this society, where we think we're so smart, how many people, without even realizing it, are in the6:03 exact same position she was in? And you're laughing because you know it's true. We're down here in Florida. This is where people come to die. Amen, somebody?6:15 And sometimes it's ugly. Come on. Alright? Anyway, now here's the thing. We don't have to we don't have to guess what the doctors tried to do to this woman. We6:27 don't. Because if there's 1 thing the Jews did, they were absolutely committed to writing things down. By the way, we've got this book because the Jews love to write things6:39 down. So thank God for that. But there's a lot of writings from the Jewish people in the ancient world that did get written down but are not scripture, and 1 of those things is called the Talmud. The Talmud is the6:51 Jewish commentary on the Old Testament. So they would, they wrote books about the book. And a lot of the books, the a lot of the Talmud was interpretation.7:03 How do we live this out? And wouldn't you know that to this day, we have the collection of the Talmud? There's 2 versions. There's the Babylonian Talmud from about 5 to 300 BC. There's the Jerusalem7:15 Talmud from about 150 to 100 BC. And, the more trustworthy 1 is the Babylonian, the older, the more trustworthy. And, they were listed in the Babylonian7:26 Talmud, the Jewish writings on the law, prescriptions for a woman who suffered with an issue of blood. You can go online and look it up yourself, but I saved you the trouble, and I have7:38 it on the screen for you. Here I am reading from the Trachate Shabbat 1 10 a, the the Babylonian Talmud. Here's what it says. If a woman suffers from a flux of blood So here's the prescription. Here's the prescription.7:49 Number 1, bring 3 logs of Persian onions, boil them in wine, and make her drink it. If that fails, bring crocus, alum, garden saffron, and mix them in wine. If that fails,8:01 bring 60 shears of barley grain found in donkey dung and place it in wine administered with the summons. Cease from your discharge. If that fails, let an ostrich egg or take an8:13 ostrich egg, burn it, wrap it in linen rags in summer and in cotton rags in winter, and on and on it goes. In fact, you read a little further and they even they even prescribe shock therapy that you make this woman stand8:25 at a crossroads and someone jumps out behind her and says, boo. And she was supposed to be she was supposed to be healed through shock therapy. Now listen to me. I wanna I wanna say something about8:36 this. This was the accepted, trusted medical diagnosis for a woman8:48 suffering with a discharge of blood. You could say it like this. I just read to you from the medical journal of the first century. So trustworthy was9:00 it that they wrote it down and kept it in perpetuity until And the Babylonian Talmud is still read from by many Jews to this day. Not trusted, but read and examined9:11 for what it tells us about ancient world culture. But I guarantee you that this woman tried every single 1 of those prescriptions. She bought the Persian onions. She9:24 had to go and get herself some donkey dumb. How about that for your picking up your prescription from CVS? Come on, somebody. What did you order, ma'am? I ordered the donkey dunk. Alright. It's9:35 coming. You know? He we're waiting for the donkey out back. Just give it a couple moments. This is this is her condition, and this is listen. The accepted, the understood9:48 prescription of the time. Could it be possible that the mistakes they are making in that generation are9:59 still being made today in our generation. Because I know what some of you might say. Some of you the skeptics will say, well, pastor, they just didn't know what they were doing back then. This is a long10:11 time ago. So they didn't have the knowledge that we had. And here's what I like to say about that. It's not gonna take very long for somebody to say that about us. Hundred10:23 years from now, they're gonna say, can you believe what those people did during COVID 19? So all that, to build the case10:34 deconstruction, I want you to write this down, and it's gonna be it's gonna be a little bit, you know, kinda like sensitive for some people, but write this down, doubt the science. If there was a lesson to be10:46 learned from the night COVID 19 pandemic, it was that. For as much as they told us to trust the science, I say now we should doubt the science. In fact, if you know anything about scientific10:58 discovery and even the scientific method, you understand that at the best we can do is formulate a hypothesis and a theorem that a future study will undo.11:11 That's how science works. Remember when they told us that margarine was good for us? And then and then butter is good for us, and now it's11:23 no. It's not. I can't believe it's not butter, and then all these things no olive oil, no seed oils, no peanut oil, no beef tallow. I mean, they're always changing the study because the science is never settled.11:35 It's never fixed. It's never permanent. Just a quick recap of what they did for the last 5 years. How many remember when the night COVID 19 pandemic happened and everyone who11:47 questioned the accepted narrative that the government put together was ostracized, was vilified, was censored, and was stifled? How many remember when government officials collaborated with11:59 social media companies, independent privately owned media companies to suppress content based on what the government said we could hear? I12:11 think that I, on a very small level, was a was a recipient of that in some ways. How many remember when hospitals were supposed to be overwhelmed and then you went to TikTok and you saw dance choreographed videos12:23 of nurses and doctors in the empty halls of those hospitals? I mean, this stuff should've triggered us. We should've woken up much faster. How remember when masks weren't12:34 effective, then they were effective, then they were kind of effective, then you should wear 2, then you should wear 4, and then you'd And now it's like, no, they didn't work at all. How many remember when 6 feet apart12:45 actually was a scientific thing, and then it came out that the doctor said He literally said, we just came up with that number out of thin air. See, some some of us don't even know these facts, but this is what happened.12:55 How many remember of ivermectin? And it was Oh, man. If you even said the word, you were vilified. And now it comes out later that maybe it does actually work. Did the virus start in a lab? It13:07 started out with no way. It came from bats, and now it's absolutely possible that it came out of a lab. What I'm trying to tell you is doubt the science because the science sometimes13:19 is not trustworthy, sometimes it's manipulated on purpose, and every time it's always temporary for what it's teaching us. Now a lot of people were shocked by13:31 all this, and I gotta tell you, I wasn't. I was skeptical from the moment that it started, and here's my testimony. Because I just gotta bring you back to talk us through something here. My13:40 wife and I went13:41 to Boston, Massachusetts to the epicenter of the medical world in America. I think everybody could agree with that. Boston may be Raleigh Durham, but Boston, Massachusetts is the13:53 epicenter of medical advancements. It's home to world class hospitals, world class doctors. People from all over the world moved to Boston because of the medical profession there.14:05 Not only that, it's home to Harvard, Tufts, and, Boston University, the top 3 medical institutions in our country. And I was there with my wife for an appointment for our son,14:17 January of 20 20. I'll never forget. I walked into the lobby. This is January. Walked into the lobby of, I believe it was Mass Women's and Brighams or whatever14:28 whatever. It might have been Beth Israel. I don't know. 1 of the major hospitals. Walked into the lobby, and all over the lobby was pride paraphernalia. Pride flags, trans14:40 flags, celebrate you, understand, you know, the science of gender theory. I mean, I was just like, what is going on? And and and then we went up, and and the questions that they were asked as we were checking in, I was14:51 like, what is this? This is insane. What questions are you asking us? Invasive, weird questions. And again, this was right before the pandemic. And and and I just knew at that point, I said, wait a second. Wait a second.15:03 And here's how my mind worked in that moment. I said, if they're buying this lie, what other lies could they be selling? That's how I thought. And I thought to myself, let me do some research. I15:15 did. Did you know that Boston Children's met Boston Children's Hospital is home to the country's oldest pediatric gender clinic? 2007, it was started.15:27 Back in 2023, a staff psychologist from Boston's Children's Hospital posted a video on social media where she said, and I quote, most of the15:39 children that she sees know their gender identity from the womb, end quote. It was posted, there was cultural backlash and outrage, and it15:51 was deleted. Because only a foolish culture could say that a a child isn't a child in the womb, but it definitely knows its gender in the womb. Are you following this or am I getting too hot,16:03 too heavy too soon? I'm just trying to tell you, you you gotta look at the holes in the presentation. Massachusetts General Hospital also provides comprehensive transgender health programs for children,16:15 ages 3 to 25. They believe a child can't drink, child can't drive, child can't gamble, child can't smoke, but a child can definitely get on puberty blockers. And16:26 this is the epicenter of medical establishment. And this is what I'm trying to tell you. Doubt the science. Doubt the science because not everybody has noble intentions. And16:38 even if they have noble intentions, they might be undermined by fallacies that are accepted because of a cultural push instead of scientific understanding and facts.16:51 This is called ideological capture of the medical industry. And I this is why I get troubled when I see God's people blindly following the science17:03 of pagans. You understand we are the salt of the earth. We are the light of the world. Christians gotta get their get get their backbone. Christians gotta get their birthright, their heritage17:15 back, and understand that we are not here to follow what the world says. We are here to change what the world says because we've got the truth of Jesus Christ and of God's word. And my17:27 father my my savior said, this truth shall set you free. Free from the cultural nonsense in which you live. All all I'm trying to say is just take a look and do some examination yourself.17:38 Let me go further in case I haven't offended you yet. Let's talk about the pharmaceutical industry. This is a for this is a for profit industry in our country right now. And I got no problem with17:50 capitalism, to an extent, but I have a problem when it comes to your health and well-being and what they're trying to sell you. And sometimes, what they're trying to sell you is not the best thing. The bible says in the18:02 book of Galatians 5 verse 20, it says, this is the work of the flesh. It says idolatry What's the next word? Sorcery. Just circle that word in your notes. Sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger,18:13 rivalries, ascensions, division. You understand that the bible was written not in English, it was written in Greek, the New Testament. Now all those words that I just have listed right here, they all have a Greek word18:25 they were translated from. The word sorcery, you're not gonna believe this, comes from pharmakeia. Pharmakeia. The reason why the bible translators decided to18:37 choose pharmakeia to become sorcery is because in the ancient world, and I'm talking about first century world, first just 2000 years ago, pharmakeia was the Greek word that referred18:48 to toxins that was mixed together that could lead to 1 of 2 outcomes, healing or death. And which 1 was which? Well,19:00 taste and see. What what I'm trying to tell you is, and I wasn't always It wasn't always on purpose, but they were they were struggling. How do we fix these problems? And19:12 so they would put things together and give it to people. And sometimes the results weren't less than desirable. And this is what they came up with. The the terminology for it is is pharmakeia and19:24 the New Testament is translated into sorcery because at the end of the day, it's just trying to manipulate the material world to provide healing19:35 compounds. Now, some of you again will say, but pastor, you are talking about 2000 year old ideas.19:47 Surely, we modern people have figured this out. Let's just talk about the last 100 years. The last19:59 100 years. Fair? Of the pharmaceutical industry. In the 19 thirties and the 19 forties, do you know that doctors doctors trained medical professionals in this country prescribe cigarettes20:11 for asthma and other respiratory diseases. Camel used to run an ad called Camel cigarettes, the 1 doctors trust most.20:23 Imagine going to the some of you are like, man, find me that doctor. I'll go to him. This is this is but this was the accepted medical diagnosis. Do you know that cocaine was sold as a remedy for20:35 dental pain and fatigue and even shyness, and they marketed it to children as cocaine toothache drops. This is from the 19 fifties. Cocaine. This is20:47 let look. This was after d day. We just celebrated d day. Right? This was just a couple of years after that. All I'm trying to tell you is not ancient world.20:59 All I'm trying to tell you is your grandparents trusted this stuff. In the 19 thirties to the 19 fifties, scientists and doctors, do know what they would do to deal with depression and anxiety? Oh, young people, you not21:09 like this 1. They used to lobotomize you. What'd that mean? They would drill a little hole in your head and pull out a portion of your brain. Maybe we should bring that back and not as many people would complain about21:21 anxiety and depression anymore. I don't know. What are you gonna do to me? Oh, I'm good. I'm happy. Look at me. I'm fine. I'm totally calm. Thank you very much. You say, wait, you're still in the 19 fifties. Okay. Let's21:33 go to the 19 nineties. In the 19 nineties, there was a miracle weight loss drug called Phen Phen. Anybody remember this 1? 0, you do? You come to Florida to die. Okay. Anyway, it was prescribed to21:44 6000000 Americans. That was 4 percent of the population was on this drug. And then it was discovered to cause serious heart valve damage and pulmonary hypertension, and the FDA21:56 got so bad, the FDA had to pull it off the shelves in 19 97, after hundreds of injuries and death. Then there was something for you ladies called hormone replacement therapy. Anybody remember this? Don't say amen here.22:08 But it was an was a prescription of estrogen and progestin therapy for older women after menopause to keep women youthful. And then the Women's Health Institute did a study in22:20 2002. Okay. So now we're only a couple a couple decades away. In 2002, they found that HRT actually increased the risk of breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. And it was an accepted22:32 medical diagnosis of prescription of the day. And in the 19 nineties, Purdue Pharma came up with a drug called OxyContin. We're still dealing with the opioid epidemic ever since. And for the win,22:43 2024, we are talking about 6 months ago. 6 months ago. 2024, a study from McLean Hospital affiliated with Harvard found that individuals taking22:55 high doses of prescription amphetamines, such as Adderall, face more than a 5 fold increased risk of developing psychosis or mania later in life.23:07 And that's still on the shelf. And that's still being prescribed. Doubt the science. What I'm not saying is don't trust any23:19 doctors, and don't trust any pharmacies, and don't trust any drug That's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is please, please, please do not trust this institution23:31 implicitly. Have some skepticism up in here. Amen, somebody? Amen. It's okay to have skepticism. That's kinda what makes America America.23:43 Skeptic of King George in 17 76. Amen somebody. We were skeptic. We were skeptic. Skeptical of taxation without representation. Amen somebody. We were skeptical of the23:54 tea they were selling us, and now we got Starbucks and Dunkin'. Take that, friend. I'm just trying to say, I'm just trying to say, we live in24:06 a fallen world, and that includes even the institutions that seek to heal us and help us. They're still fallen in nature. They're still inadequate to truly heal.24:18 So write this down, number 1. Healing happens when I push through the truth. Just like this woman, you have to push through the crowd, the people that24:30 got all the space up in your life, that fog up your conscience, that take your thoughts captive and in a direction that's not helpful. You've gotta push through it,24:42 and you've gotta do the work. I know this is hard to hear, but sometimes we gotta do the work to examine what we're hearing. The scripture says in first John, test everything. Test every who should I24:54 you should even be testing me. Test all things that you hear, Christian, because you cannot afford to blissfully be ignorant of what's real and what's false, what's truth, and what's lies because your25:06 health and your children and your family are at stake. Push through. This is what this woman did in chapter in, verse 27. She heard about Jesus and she came up behind25:18 him, the crowd thronging, and she pressed through and she touched the edge of her her his garments, and she had reasoned, if I just touch if I just touch his garments, I'll be healed. Now, let me just say something about25:28 this woman here. Her faith was not perfect. Do garments heal? No. Jesus heals. But God still uses imperfect faith25:40 when the object of our faith is Jesus. Did did some does somebody need me to say that again? Because some of you, I don't know if I know enough. It's not about what you know, it's about who you know. He25:52 he'll he'll guard you. If you're in Christ, I believe this with all my heart. He will guard you from the lies that are trying to come after you. Okay? Number 2. Write this down. Healing happens when I feel it in my body.26:04 When I feel it in my body. And notice what it says about this woman in verse 29. She touched his garments, and immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she what? Circle. She felt.26:16 She felt it. I said this in week 1. Listen to your body. Your body can tell you what's wrong. The headache is not just the kids driving you nuts.26:28 Something's wrong. You might have a sodium deficiency. You might have a potassium deficiency. The anxiety is telling you, young people, something physically is wrong. You might have an iron deficiency.26:40 There's all kinds of studies coming out. You might have leaky gut. You might have something going on down here where where your serotonin is produced that you're not feeding this properly, so it can't produce the26:50 hormones necessary to keep you off the anxiety medication. I'm I'm trying to say is, you you you gotta listen to your body and say, wait a second, my body should feel well. And if27:02 it's not feeling well, then maybe I'm doing something to it that's not helping it. So, to that end, I got a Zoom call interview, and I hope you will be patient with me on this 1.27:14 Because I put this together. Last week, I told you that we had a guest, a guy in our church named, Joe Kadeka. He came up and talked about this book called The Maker's Diet. He was healed of Crohn's disease that was27:24 supposed to be chronic and lifelong because he changed his diet according to the bible. According to the bible. Who knew the bible was a cookbook? Amen, somebody. Well, that book was written by a guy named Jordan Rubin.27:34 And while after service last week, I'm walking out and somebody walks up to me and says, pastor, I personally know Jordan Rubin. Would you like to talk to him? I said, absolutely. So he joined me for a Zoom call27:45 interview and he's got a prescription for where we go from here and this is gonna be a bit, but please be patient. There's great content, and I wanna show you how this interview went down. Let's roll it.28:06 Oh, privileged to be joined by Jordan Rubin. He is the author of the Maker's Diet, and he also has another book coming out called the Biblio Diet, and I've had a chance to peruse both of those books, and I'm excited28:18 to have him join us through the wonders of technology church. Even a Zoom call could be part of the preaching of God's word as we approach God's word for what we should do with what goes in our mouth. Jordan, thanks for28:29 joining us, and, say hi to the congregation even though you don't see them, but they see you.28:33 It's great to be here and excited to be, speaking to the Waters Church family.28:39 Amen. We're excited to have you. This is gonna be a blessing, know. First, tell us your story because you have a very similar story to the guy who read your book last week. Well, read it years ago, but he told us he'd28:50 read your book, and he was on the stage last week, and your diet specifications in that book led to his healing without pharmaceutical intervention, and he's never been the same since, and you have a very similar29:02 story. So tell us your story, and then I think you have 2 incredible testimonies. Go for it. I'm just going to sit back and bask in the wonder of God's goodness towards you.29:09 Absolutely. Well, it is so exciting to see the power of the written word, but more importantly, the power of application. So we know that faith without action is dead. And I think29:21 faith really is the starting point of my story. I was a committed believer in college, on fire for God, thinking my life would only go upwards.29:32 And like so many, God was taking me on a journey that I had no idea where it would lead. And so it seems like overnight, I went from a healthy, vibrant29:44 college athlete to trapped in the throes of a digestive illness, which was later diagnosed as Crohn's colitis. So I was at the end of my freshman year of college and29:56 feeling like I was downward spiraling into sickness. Now keep in mind, as a immortal teenager, I was feeling like this was gonna go away in a week30:08 or a month. It's like a cold or a flu, but that didn't happen. And I ultimately went from 185 pounds at a height of 6 feet tall to 104 pounds in a wheelchair.30:20 Man.30:21 I think the pivotal moment, Pastor, was a year into my illness after the medications failed to work and I had visited dozens of natural health experts30:33 trying to overcome what was now 19 illnesses, not simply Crohn's colitis, but everything under the sun from my kidneys breaking down, to prostate,30:44 to liver, to every kind of infection you can think of, even lost an inch or more of height. I was weak, I was sick, But within that period of30:56 time, I maintained this sliver of faith. And I wouldn't say that being sick brought me closer to God, but I had a level of desperation that31:08 was the best I could explain being in that valley of the shadow of death that David describes in Psalm 23. And I had a31:19 moment or a crisis of faith where Hebrews 11 verse 1, which says that faith is the substance, the foundation, the bedrock of things31:31 hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Following that, without faith, it is impossible to please God. And then faith without works is dead. As a31:43 bedridden 20 year old who disconnected from my friends. When I traveled outside of the home, it was mostly to see doctors. People who saw me31:55 were repulsed by me because they wondered if they could catch whatever disease I had. I was in a wheelchair, but I had this moment of conviction where even though I have32:06 no money, no friends, I'm a burden to my family. I'm causing them misery, which was so hard for me to deal with. And everything I had on this earth is gone,32:19 I still believed that God was asking me to take a step of faith. So that step, pastor, was really 7 steps. So I walked from a room that I was staying in at my parents' home being taken care32:31 of like an infant, and here I am about 20 years old. I walked to a closet and stood there, and I asked my mom to take my picture. But this photograph32:42 was something that my mom begged me not to take. She said, Jordan, I don't wanna take this picture. It breaks my heart to look at you. Can't we wait till you're well? And I said, mom, you need to take this picture32:54 because the world's not going to believe what God's going to do with my life. And I would love to tell everybody that the next day I woke up and poof, I was well. But33:06 days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and about a year after that step of faith, I met a man who told me that if I followed a health plan based on the Bible,33:18 proven through history and confirmed by science, I could be well. This was 19 96. And when I heard those words after trying 6933:30 different doctors and lawyers and Indian chiefs, and I am not exaggerating, I had hope for the first time. I had that little bit of faith,33:42 but now I had hope. Not only that, I knew that this illness was something that so many were suffering from in silence and in33:54 embarrassment and shame. I knew during my illness that if I could help just 1 person overcome disease, or better yet avoid it, then this living hell would have all been worth it. So34:05 for me, pastor, to hear about a plan that's based on the bible that lines up with my faith, what an amazing blessing. Because I had tried Venus flytrap juice injections from Germany,34:18 fetal sheep cell therapy from England. You name it, I tried it. So something that I could share with people that was tangible and that brought glory to God was exciting. So fast forward, I34:30 went in my wheelchair from South Florida where I grew up to Southern California to live with and learn from this man named Bud. And he pointed me to the Bible's34:41 plan for health. And he told me that in 12 weeks I would be working out on the beach, going from wheelchair to workout. I guess that's a new book there right34:53 now. And he was right. I believed God, I believed him and I took the knowledge from the hundreds of health books I had read during my illness, looked35:05 at the Bible through a different lens of health and healing and the promises of God. I clinged to them, and in body, mind, and spirit, I went from death to life in35:17 40 days, and another 40, I was working out on the beach on my 20 first birthday. I think there's also a photograph you can bring up with me standing in front of the beach, which we call the35:29 after picture. And I knew at that point, Pastor Tim, that God was going to use me to share a message of health and hope with the world. And35:40 I have. I started out working at a health food store, but over the last almost 30 years, I was able to start organizations to bring the truth of35:53 God's health principles to the world. I was able to write multiple books, including The Maker's Diet. And today, I'm still testifying to the power of God. I will36:05 say that in 2008, after starting multiple companies and starting farms and writing books and ministering all over the world, I had36:16 another healing opportunity. And I say that because it's a great way to describe a major health crisis. But this healing opportunity was cancer. It was advanced. And a doctor36:28 told me, If I don't undergo chemotherapy, surgery and radiation, that I have a 100 percent chance of dying in 90 days. Pastor, if that's not a36:40 testimony wrapped up in a curse, I've never heard 1. So I once again leaned to my relationship with God. I was married at the time36:52 with 3 young children and I fought the good fight. I became more than a conqueror and God healed me from cancer. And for the first time on a broad level, I am37:04 revealing that story, the biblical revelation of healing, in this new book that I sent to you called The Live Long,37:14 Reduce Pain, Fight Depression and Conquer Cancer with Healing Secrets from the Bible. And by the way, even though the Maker's Diet was written out 20, 21 years ago,37:27 and it's the same Bible that I read every day, God has given me fresh revelation for the church and for the world. And as much as I love the message of37:39 Make America Healthy Again, I want to help make the church healthy again. And I believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is doing a great thing. The new head of the FDA, Doctor. Marty Makery, is doing a great thing.37:51 Hopefully, the new Surgeon General, Doctor. Casey Means, is going to do great things. But God created us. This is his desire and his health plan, and I would love to see him gain the glory38:03 for this health revolution. And that's what I'm hoping to be a part of.38:07 Amen. What a powerful testimony, not healed simply from 1 disease in your twenties, but in your thirties from cancer itself, the big evil 1 when it comes to health issues. Cancer is38:19 subjected to the obedience of faith in Jesus Christ.Show more
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