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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.0:14 Alright. Take out your notes. They look like this. Here we go. Part 4 of Let's Get Healthy picking the series back up. Here's the title of my message, Jesus wants me well.0:27 Let me frame this. I've I've got 20 minutes to frame to deconstruct some thoughts in you. And the second half of this message is going to be a video, conversation between me and doctor0:39 Josh Axe that I recorded this week, and we are privileged to have him join us even if it is digitally. He is in a space working as0:51 a Christian in the area of functional medicine, and and his testimony is powerful. But before we get to that and what he has to share, I want to recap quickly and then deconstruct1:02 something from this text about something that I don't know if you've ever connected the dots when it comes to your wellness. Number 1, we've we recap. Here here's the recap. Week 1, we1:14 talked about the food industry. 60 to 70 percent of our diet as Americans is ultra processed food and is killing us.1:26 And a lot of the new modern ways of making food and preserving food is actually poison. In fact, seed oils, canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil,1:38 margarine, these are found, all over the place in the in the modern American diet. These these additives did not exist in these present forms1:50 just 100 years ago. And cancers are killing us. Heart disease and diabetes is becoming a huge problem that is straining our2:02 health care system as a result. We talked about that in week 1. Week 2, we talked about the government, to have a healthy dose of skepticism about your government, Christian. The government is sometimes2:14 wrong. And it's good for Christians to always assume that there are going to be things your government does and says and practices that are not in2:26 your best interest. We must pray for our government, but hold them with a hefty dose of skepticism when it comes to how we,2:38 treat ourselves and our families. I've read the bible enough to realize that sometime many times the government was the problem. Has anybody ever heard of pharaoh? He was the government.2:51 Herod the great tried to kill the little boys to get rid of Jesus. He was the government. Pilate washed his hands. Didn't wanna take responsibility. He was the government. The people who persecuted Paul from city to city3:03 were oftentimes the government. Now maybe you're a little bit confused about what's going on in Iran right now. Here's what you need to do. You need to pray for the government, for wisdom and discretion3:15 because we don't know what they know. And it's not a Democrat Republican issue, it's a government issue, and a lot of times it's a spiritual issue, and God has raised up governments with the sword to punish3:27 the evil doer. How he does that is in his domain, and he asks us to pray for them. That's what the Lord asks us to do. Check it out in second Timothy chapter 2. That's what he asks us to3:39 do. Okay? Now, the government, the FDA, we addressed that in week 2. In week 3, we address the medical and pharmaceutical industry. And how oftentimes these3:51 2 industries are intertwined and it's financially based not to heal you, but to placate you. We don't have health care, we have sick4:02 care in many respects when it comes to our industry of medical practices. Now that doesn't mean, and I wanna make sure you understand, all pharmaceutical products4:14 and all doctors are evil. I did not say that and I never would. But it does also mean that some of them are. And you4:26 cannot afford to blissfully embrace the ideologies of these establishment principalities over something as4:37 sacrosanct as your health and well-being. Your body is a temple of the holy spirit. In the old testament, the4:49 temple, when it was destroyed, you have to understand, it was only destroyed by the enemies on the outside after after it had been filled with5:00 impurities on the inside. Did you hear me? 3 temples in ancient Israel. 3. They're all destroyed now. Some would argue 2. I argue 3. There was5:11 Solomon's temple, Zerubbabel's temple, which wasn't really destroyed. It was it was desecrated. And then Herod's that Herod's temple, the 1 that Jesus goes to. All 3 of them on the ash sheep of history, but because the5:23 scriptures made clear, they allowed they allowed impure things in them, in the temple. And then God they were weakened, and God allowed their enemies to defeat them on the outside.5:34 This is a picture for your body. Your body is sacred. Your body matters. It's not yours, by the way. Did you know that? Your it's not your body.5:47 Anybody who tells you my body, my choice has not read the bible. It is God's body. It is his choice. And that applies to not just your health and and your5:58 food, it applies to your sexuality. It it applies to your relationships, it applies to the alcohol consumption or whatever else you think belongs in here. Let's get a hold of what God6:10 says about his body. Amen. But I wanted wanted to kinda get at the root because we've we've talked about these surface things. We've talked about the6:22 food industry and the government and the and the medical industry, but how about the root? I think that there's something at the root of it. What we have to remember and connect the dots here about is that we are in a6:32 spiritual war in our lives with a very real unseen spiritual enemy that wants to desecrate our bodies any way he can.6:43 Ultimately, to to beat us down and destroy us and rob us of our Christian testimony and our health and well-being. Now we have talked about what the food industry wants for your body. We6:55 have talked about what the government wants for your body. We've talked about what the medical and pharmaceutical establishment want for your body. Here's a question, have we thought about what the enemy wants for our7:04 body? Because he's got plans. He's got plans for your body. Write this down at the top of your notes. The enemy wants me sick in mind and body. He wants you sick in7:15 your mind, how you think. People argue and fuss and fight with God. They disagree with the word. You know what it is? It's not disagreement. It's7:27 sickness. Mental sickness. You you let me say this. It might come off a little bit strange, but let me say it. You gotta be mentally ill7:39 to disagree with God. Since since our culture loves to talk about mental illness today all the time, You've gotta be7:51 mentally ill to disagree with the 1 who made you. I'm not saying you gotta be mentally ill to disagree with me. What can I tell what I think doesn't matter?8:02 Pastor, I don't like what you say. Well, if I say what God says, then it matters. If I say what God doesn't say, it doesn't matter. I'm not talking about agreeing with me. I'm not talking about agreeing with my I'm8:14 talking about agreeing with God, the father, the author of all truth, who is the embodiment of truth and righteousness. Who is the 1 who8:26 keeps Saturn where it belongs. Who who's the 1 who makes sure that the waves only come so far up the shoreline? Who's the 1 who makes sure that the volcanoes8:38 aren't erupting at every moment of the day? Who's the 1 who holds and stitches together our bodies and our mother's womb. You gotta be mentally ill not to agree with that God.8:49 And when he speaks about your body, you gotta understand that he cares not just about your body, I think he cares about the gates of your body, and the number 1 gate in your body is your9:01 mind. Guard it. Protect it. Take every thought captive to Jesus Christ. Because as a man thinks in his heart, the scripture says, so is9:12 he. It starts here. And God and and and the enemy, you gotta understand, he wants to twist this, he wants to corrupt this, he wants to inject deception into this so that he can take9:24 possession of this and crush it and destroy it. So let's talk about let's talk about that. Did we write this down? The enemy wants to be sick in mind and body? From this text in Luke9:36 13, 5 points about what the enemy wants, then we'll get to Josh acts and what the what the Lord wants. Number 1, write this down, the enemy wants me fatigued. Did you know9:48 that 1 third, almost 1 third of doctor's visits for adults in this country are because of fatigue?10:00 People are wiped out. Now I believe there's a host of issues about that. I think that we're not getting enough sleep. I think that our screens are keeping us10:12 awake. I think that we have a discipline problem. I've been telling you about intermittent fasting. It's been a game changer for me. I haven't taken I've taken 110:23 ibuprofen in 20 25 when I was taking 3 a night in 20 24. Praise God. What did I do? I just stopped eating whenever I wanted10:35 to. And I closed that window of my eating routine, 12 noon to about 7 7 30 the latest. It has changed everything about my body.10:47 And you know what it is? It's me saying to my body, you're not in charge. See, my mind, again, is the gate. Your mind is the gate. So what happens is, this is10:59 how our culture tries to upend you. You'll watch TikTok videos, and before you know it, you'll be swiping up and somebody is stuffing a cinnamon roll in their mouth. Or in my case, you're watching, you11:11 know, your favorite program for the thirtieth time, and and I love to watch reruns. That's my deal. And I love to watch shows that I like. I like 6 shows. I just keep watching them over and over again. I have no idea. A11:20 new show I haven't watched in in many years. Anyway, but they're always stuffing themselves with food and it's late at night and it's always pizza and I love pizza. On the eighth day, God created pizza and said it was11:31 good. No. That that's not true. That's in my bible translation. Again, disagree with that. No. No. But when I see it, immediately my my stomach starts to turn and says, you should get yourself some pizza. I11:43 have to say to myself, it's 11 o'clock at night and I need to be ready for the battle tomorrow morning. And here's what you gotta understand, is that nighttime you11:55 loves to roll over daytime you. Yeah? How how many know? You wake up.12:07 I hate nighttime me. Why did nighttime me let that happen? I hate night he's always trying she's always killing me. Okay.12:19 You gotta take an you gotta take authority. You gotta guard the gate. Maybe shut the television off after a certain time. Whatever it takes. Fatigue is a major problem. This woman is bent over. The scripture says,12:30 behold there was a woman who had a disabling spirit for 18 years and she was bent over. She couldn't straight And and and the word for disabling spirit is asthenia. Asthenia is a 2 part Greek word. It means a, no,12:41 strength. She was weakened. She was fatigued. She was wiped out. There are some commentators who wanna speculate as to what the physical condition was, that there was a fusing of her spinal cords. We don't know that12:53 the scripture doesn't say that. What it does say is that she had no strength. She was weakened. She was fatigued. Can I tell you something? If the enemy can get you fatigued, he can beat you.13:06 If you're wiped out for the for the war, he's got the upper hand. See, this is where you gotta get a hold of your nighttime you. Nighttime you is on the side of the devil to13:18 on to disempower daytime you so that you're your worst when you go to work, you're your worst when you wake up with the kids, you're your worst when you see your spouse in the morning, and then and and and and and the13:29 reason why is because nighttime you rolled you over. And now it's time to take authority over that and say in the name of Jesus, I'm gonna walk in righteousness and holiness and take thought every captive to the13:39 obedience of Christ, and I'm gonna make sure that I walk in newness of life and not in the old way that leads to sin and death. Amen, somebody? She's fatigued. She's blunt over. She couldn't straighten up at all. And I13:51 thought, this is the picture the devil wants for your life. This is what he wants. He just wants you eyes on the ground. No vision. No your heads are your head's down. Your shoulders are hunched over.14:03 You're you're just walking moment by moment, instant by instant. There's no perspective. There's no horizon. There's no vision for where God you don't you don't have your head up. You got your head down. This is not14:15 just a physical condition. It is a mental condition. Number 2, the enemy wants to be turned away from God. And so when we look at this woman, where is she? She's in the14:27 synagogue. Verse 10 says, Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, and she was there. You have to understand that there was a very complicated relationship with women in the first century synagogues. What were14:39 synagogues? They weren't the temple. Synagogues were local buildings. They required 10 Jewish men to to form a synagogue. They would then build a building, a14:50 church, and then they would open the scriptures and they would teach it locally in the towns of ancient Israel. The synagogue actually became the, precedent for what we are,15:02 local churches where the text is open and taught to the people. Now the rules of the ancient synagogue were these, that women were not allowed to function or participate in any way.15:14 They weren't even allowed to speak. And scripture says that they had to be not scripture. I'm sorry. Tradition said that they had to sit in the back right corner of the synagogue. Yes. They put baby in a15:26 corner. Alright. That joke hit better than last service. Moving on. They women were marginalized. Now this woman has a15:38 double wham. She's not just a woman in the synagogue in the first she's bent over double with this physical abnormality. And the Jews believe that if you had a physical abnormality, that you were cursed by God.15:50 Now isn't it amazing how often the enemy wants to get us to blame God for the bad things in our lives? In fact, in16:02 the land of hurricanes in Florida, when you sign on your dotted line for insurance policies, the hurricane is determined to be an act of16:14 I always get mad about that. Why do we call that the act of God? The sun rose and set peacefully 36516:26 days last year. And no 1 called it an act of God. But 1 hurricane comes across the land, devastation happens, and suddenly,16:39 God think the devil has nothing to do with this? He wants you to believe that God is out to get you. Some of you listen to me today, you come to16:51 church, you are convinced the devil you the devil's convinced you that God is against you. That all the bad that you've had in your life is because God's upset with you. The17:03 hardship is God's work in no. My bible tells me every good and perfect gift comes from the father. Every good. Every17:15 perfect gift comes from God. That means if it's imperfect, it's not from God. That means if it's not good, it's not from God. Scripture calls the devil the god of this world. He's the17:27 he's the author of confusion and devastation and and hardship. See, start giving the devil credit where credit is due. Start start and then start giving God the praise17:39 where praise is due. Come on somebody. But this woman this woman was an outcast, marginalized in the back right corner. No options. No no no community. No17:50 sense of value. That's where the enemy wanted her. And let me tell you, that's where the enemy wants you. Turned from God, convinced who came here18:02 today and you're convinced that God is out to get you, man, you're listening to the devil's music. Number 3, the enemy wants to be trapped18:14 by religion. Religion That's right. Is man's attempt to get to God. And let me tell you something, religion is gonna18:25 send more people to hell than atheism could ever dream of doing. Religion is you do enough and then God accepts18:37 you. Your attempt to get to God, that is not the gospel. And I'll just I'll just spare you a lot of frustration at times. There's only18:49 2 faith systems in this world. There's only 2. And under the umbrella of religion is all the isms.19:00 Muslimism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zhao Taoism, and America's favorite religion, I'm a good19:11 personism. Do you know these people? Maybe you are 1 of them. Why are you getting to heaven? Because I'm a good person. Based on what19:22 criteria? Well, I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer. Really? We're putting it that far down? You haven't sliced and diced your neighbors and put them in your19:34 freezer to eat later? And God's up in heaven saying, look at you. Wow. I'm impressed. Like,19:46 what test in life do you get to be the administrator of the test, the taker of the test, and the grader of the test? But19:58 there are people across the globe that are basing their eternal destination. The most important20:09 decision you will ever make in your life On your idea of what is good and your idea on how well you did20:21 it, pardon the strength of my words, but please don't be a moron. That's a game.20:34 I'm trying to I'm begging you. This is a game you can't afford to play. Come to Jesus. Receive the gospel. The the gospel20:46 is not you climb the ladder to get to God because you're good. No. The gospel is Jesus came down the ladder to get to you because he's good, and he wants to bring20:58 you up and save you and wash you clean of all your sins. And I'm telling you, some of you say, well, it's just not fair.21:10 Yeah. That's right. It's not fair. Fair is we all go to hell. That's fair. It's grace that God sheds on our hearts through the holy spirit.21:21 But people are trapped by religion. Look what the after Jesus heals this woman, look at the religious attitude of the synagogue ruler in verse 14. But the synagogue ruler was indignant that he healed on the Sabbath.21:33 You got 60. He's talking about the traditions of men. He's talking about the ways that they thought they got to God by being good on the Sabbath, by being exactly according to the plan that they laid out, the goodness21:44 mantra that they laid out. If we live according to that, we'll be accepted. Oh, man. Jesus has no time for that. He calls them out on it. When you get a hold of the21:55 gospel, you realize that God is better to you than you deserve. I I I love Dave Ramsey. You know, that's what he always says. How you doing, Dave? They22:07 say, and he says, better than I deserve. I love that. It's true. I'm every day, I'm better than I deserve by God's grace. Now why does this matter for health and wellness? Because God wants you to be healthy22:19 even if you don't deserve it. And his words are the path to healing. Proverbs 4 20 says, my son, be attentive to my words, hear them, for they are life to those who find them and healing to22:31 your flesh. Follow God's word, it's gonna heal your body. It's gonna heal your how does that work, pastor? Well, number 1, God let me just let me give you 1 category.22:43 Don't fornicate. Fornication is sexual sin outside of husband and wife. Now if you just listen to God on that,22:56 do you know how much healthier you could be mentally, physically, emotionally? Let me put let me put it this way. For those of you who have fornicated in some23:07 way, shape, or form, and that's probably all of us when you think about what Jesus says. He says, if you look lustfully, you've already done it. Has that action made your23:19 life better or worse? Guarantee, the answer is worse. The answer is worse. So just that. Listening to23:31 God's word regarding sexuality leads to healing in your body. Got it? That and that's just 1 that's just 1 category. How about23:43 we could do another 1. How about, holding grudges? God says that love keeps no record of what? Wrongs. Some23:55 of you, your emotional life has contributed to this, physical manifestation of grudge holding and bitterness.24:07 And it's just they've done tests about this. Forgiveness literally can bring healing to sickness. I've talked to doctors who have told me that24:19 many times on the gurney, the many times in the hospital bed, when the person forgives, they start to recover. It's all connected.24:31 It's all connected. Anyway, God's word brings healing. Number 4, the enemy wants me torn from my identity. He wants you to believe you're less than. He wants you to believe you're a nobody. He wants you to believe you24:42 don't deserve. He wants you to believe that God is out to get you. He wants you to believe that you're an outsider and you're estranged from the grace of God. And and here's another 1, and some of you have heard this24:50 your whole life. The enemy wants you to think you're worthless. That's just not true. So Jesus calls out these hypocrites. Alright.25:02 And he says it too. Verse 15, you hypocrites, don't you untie your ox and your donkey? Don't you loose on the Sabbath your animals to give them water?25:15 In other words, your religious rules have made animals more valuable than people.25:28 We live in a culture that's very much the same way even though it's not under the guise of religion, under the guise of climate alarmism, under the guise of secular humanism. Secular humanism is the most dehumanizing25:39 philosophy I've ever I've ever heard of. The same people who think that the world is gonna burn up in 12 years are the most in favor of ripping apart the image25:51 of God in a mother's womb in the name of freedom and independence. Is dehumanizing. There is nothing humanitarian about it. There are people who think we need to depopulate, not populate26:03 the world. They think humans are the problem. This is a philosophy, unfortunately, that gets into many classrooms. And you gotta check your teenagers when they come home from school and ask them about this. If their26:15 teacher not all teachers teach this, but some of them do. That humans are the problem. Let me just say this. This is what Jesus is calling out those hypocrites on. They they they would untie their ox and donkey, but they26:24 couldn't they couldn't rejoice that this woman was being freed from her condition of sickness and unwell an unfathomable thing. But Jesus was saying in a message, letter a in your notes, people are most26:36 valuable to God. For those of you who have heard that you're worthless, I am here to tell you that is a lie from the devil. God loves you26:49 and cares about you, and he wants to help you and heal you. You bear in your body the image of God almighty. I don't care what you look like. I don't care27:01 how how heavy you are or how thin you are. I I don't care what your sin habit is. I I don't care what has enslaved you. When when God sees you, he sees his27:13 image on you. It might be marred, it might be distorted because of sin, it might have some holes in it because there's been some attacks that you haven't handled well. But can I tell you that there's still27:24 an imprint of the divine on your body and God loves you and wants to heal you and bring you back to wholeness through Jesus? When you think about this, have you27:36 ever thought, why does Jesus heal so much to reveal the father? Because he does say, if you if you don't believe on me because of my words, at least look at the miracles. That's what he says at27:48 1 point. He said, look at the miracles. What were the miracles? Healings. Of what? Of people. He doesn't heal a single animal. He heals people. And he cast out demons. Out of who?28:01 People. Why does Jesus choose to reveal the nature and the existence of the father through healing people and setting people free? Because what Jesus is28:13 doing is revealing that God's heart is for people. Jesus could have flown in the air to prove he was God. Jesus could have28:25 cast lightning bolts on his enemies to prove that he was God. To prove that he was God. To reveal the father's heart, he heals people's bodies.28:36 I'm just trying to tell you, you're valuable. That is God's heart toward you. It's not based on how many followers and likes that you get. It's based28:48 on his compassion and grace. The bible says that God anointed, Acts chapter 10, Jesus of Nazareth with the holy spirit and power to heal all who were29:00 oppressed by the devil. That's how he reveals the father. Psalm 1 0 3 says that the father heals all of our diseases. He forgives all of our sins. He29:12 crowns our life with steadfast love and mercy. Let her be. Write this down. I am not their label. I am his beloved. See, the devil wants you29:24 disconnected from your identity. Jesus comes to reconnect you. Because when Jesus heals this woman, after the scorn of the hypocrites and the religious leaders, what does he29:35 say? Oh, what precious words from the savior. In verse 16, he says, should not this woman a what?29:43 Oh,29:45 do you hear the the the reunification of her to her identity? This is who you are, a daughter of Abraham. Satan had you bound, but Jesus has29:57 come to lose her and give her her proper identity and self worth. Number 5, the enemy wants me trapped in defeat. He wants you trapped in defeat. He wants you30:09 stuck in what you perceive to be an unchangeable condition. And I'm here to tell you, that's just not true. God can do anything. He can release you and free you30:21 from the habits that destroy you. He can release your mind from the thoughts that plague you. He can release your life from the addictions that seek to enslave you. He is the30:33 God who sets the captives free. Jesus said to this woman in verse 12, woman, you are freed. The word free here is in the Greek. It means to be set free from30:44 control. And remember, what was controlling her was a spirit. Now I'm asking you, and this is the whole premise of my message, that the Lord Jesus sets you30:56 free from the spiritual forces on your life that are enslaving you to sickness and unhealthy living. And to help me bring us back to31:08 what Jesus wants, I wanna show you this conversation that I had the privilege to have with doctor Josh Axe. Watch this.31:18 Well, thanks for having me pastor Tim. It's an honor to be here.31:21 Glad to have you. So let's get started because we're talking about how often the church overlooks the physical, conditions of people only to focus on the spiritual, but they're all interconnected.31:32 That's been the theme of this series. You have a ton to say about this. You also have a ton of knowledge. And I just31:39 wanna start from ground 0 here on where you are in that space and what is most important to you as a doctor in in this reality of healing the body holistically31:50 and not just turning to pharmaceutical solutions?31:54 Well, number 1, what I wanna do and you wanna do what all the people watching this wanna do is we wanna honor God. Right? We wanna expand his kingdom. And the bible is very clear about our physical health. And Paul talks32:05 about, and when he's saying run to win the race in in in that area of the bible, he's also saying he's saying, listen. Physical health isn't as important as spiritual health, but it's still important. Right? And so that32:17 being said, I think that there is this deep I I was I was watching this lecture. I I have PhD from in in in Hebrew. And he was saying that there's these relationships we wanna have. We wanna have a deep connection to32:29 God. We wanna have a deep connection to people. But also, the book of Genesis talks about us being connected to the earth and having the right relationship with the earth, whether it be the food, the sun, the32:39 environment. And so, you know, I I'm I'm a big believer that we really should be focused on on using food as medicine, lifestyle medicine, biblical principles as our greatest form of medicine today. And today, we've32:51 had so many, man made things enter and replace that. And and and primarily, that's been, pharmaceutical drugs. And, you know, there's a there's a a verse in Proverbs, and it says33:03 this, God will bring blessing and he'll add no trouble to it. Yeah. God's blessing doesn't have side effects. And so, you know, that's the thing we see the big difference today between taking a vitamin or a supplement or33:14 a healthy food versus a medication is, you know, taking turmeric or ginger or cinnamon doesn't have these big side effects. They only bring nourishment to the body. And so I've been a big proponent33:26 of teaching people, you know, biblical medicine for for the past 15 years or so. You also say, and I33:32 love this quote, you can't treat a spiritual problem with a pharmaceutical solution. I love that quote. I believe it's from 1 of your books. And I just can't agree with that more because the pill, the33:44 pharmacist, the doctor, the prescription has become so trusted in our culture today. People have kind of become blinded to the truth that sets them free and, again, tying themselves to the earth. We come from33:56 the dust. So speak to that a little bit more about what you see. Maybe is that what led you into this environment from I believe it was chiropractic now into into functional medicine.34:08 Yeah. So what really led me into this space is my mom having a cancer diagnosis when I was young and seeing her go through the conventional medical model. She had a mastectomy. She went through rounds of chemotherapy.34:19 And the crazy part is, even though she was diagnosed as being cancer free after that, seemed much worse. She got diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic constipation, hypothyroidism,34:31 depression and anxiety, got put on antidepressant and antianxiety drugs, other medications. And so my mom was very, very sick growing up. And I remember thinking to myself, there's got to be a better way. And that's34:42 really what led me into functional medicine nutrition. I went on to chiropractic school where I actually went there because I wanted to learn about nutrition, though I loved the principles I learned in school. And then34:52 eventually started a functional medicine practice and then a vitamin and supplement company and some other things. But really what led me into this whole direction was seeing how sick my mom was and that treating her35:03 with the conventional treatments never helped her truly heal. And so I wanted to figure out a way to help her truly recover. Like, I wanted my mom back, you know? And if you've ever had yourself or a family35:15 member struggle, you know, it's there there's a quote in the health community. It's you've got 99 problems until you have a major health problem, then you've got 1 problem, right? Because it can be all consuming for your35:24 life. And 1 of the things I realized too, though, when taking care of tens of thousands of patients over the years is that especially when it comes to depression,35:36 anxiety, identity issues, you can't those especially, you will not fix with a drug or medication. You know, when I first opened my practice, Pastor Tim, the majority of the35:47 conditions I saw or that were growing at the time were hormone conditions in women like hypothyroidism, low testosterone in men, childhood obesity and diabetes. I mean, those conditions were skyrocketing.35:59 And and those are still very high. However, today, the fastest growing conditions are mental health disorders. It's depression. It's anxiety. It's children who have major identity issues, and it's36:11 causing them to to to have this major state of loneliness and sadness. And and and if if you knew how many kids were getting put on antidepressant drugs and antianxiety drugs, it's it's mind36:23 blowing. They're they're they are the most prescribed drugs today. And I do believe there's biochemical imbalances in the brain. We know that vitamin d deficiency causes seasonal affective disorder. We know omega 3 fatty36:34 acid deficiencies will cause some depressive symptoms. But still, those are still Band Aids or minor supports versus actually getting the root of the issue.36:44 Yeah. And what I love about your content is you are always bringing your faith to bear in the instruction, in the information. It's never just a clinical approach. You have and that's what you, I think,36:56 mean by holistic is God has to be involved. You are a created being by a creator. He has designed you for a certain living, a certain way to live. Living outside of that design37:07 is going to bear ill effects in your life in a host of areas, emotional, mental, physical, social, spiritual. So what are some of and I guess in your experience in37:19 diagnosing some people from a maybe a secular environment, your practice, what have been some of the most common spiritual causes behind these crises that you have, after digging a little37:31 bit, found to be the cause?37:34 Well, far and away, there's 1 issue that's by far the biggest and nothing else even comes close. And it's your identity. It's what you believe about God is the most important thing about you. Yeah. And it's really37:45 interesting because you might think, well, how is my belief about God the most important thing about me? If you know that God is doing that for you, thinking about you right now, working things out for your good right37:56 now, that changes things dramatically. And so I think when somebody understands I am loved unconditionally, I'm valued. Well, now I don't need to go and try and find value fromShow more
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Isaiah 7 Explained: Immanuel & the Virgin Birth | Trusting God in Crisis Pastor Tim Hatch
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