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"Do you understand the magnitude and significance of the effort that we are part of when we engage in taking the Gospel to unbelievers? Find out much more on today's edition of Encounter God's Truth. We go back to Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia to hear the closing portion of a lesson on The Necessity of God's Word and our series on biblical apologetics. I'm Wayne Shepard and our Bible teacher is Dr. John Whitcomb. We've been learning together from this classic series on apologetics and today's program brings us to the finish. As fall approaches and so many head back to school, how appropriate it is that we focus on the energy that scripture has to impact our hearts and minds with God's eternal truth. As Dr. Whitcomb demonstrates, it's more formidable than the greatest human intellect and even more powerful than seeing a miracle. Let's go back to Appalachian Bible College now and hear the conclusion of this message, The Necessity of God's Word. We begin by reviewing 2 Corinthians chapter 2. Who is sufficient for these things? My friends, we're in an infinite operation here that determines the eternal destiny of human beings in heaven or hell. Who's sufficient for these things? For we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. Now friends, we can just begin to realize the magnitude of God's plan here in form of a little chart. I hope this will be of some help to you as it has to me from time to time. Over here we have symbolized the unbeliever with a darkened heart that doesn't have cleansing and purifying and forgiveness and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the unbeliever. And notice that he is surrounded by an impenetrable barrier to any outside finite pressure. It's called his sinful nature. And over here we've tried to depict the believer whose heart has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit based on the merits of Jesus Christ. And the believer may fall into the serious temptation of trying to win the unbeliever on a horizontal basis, namely just provide Christian evidences to penetrate that heart through logic and philosophy and history and science. And by the way, all these arguments that we've talked about through archaeology and history and logic, I mean there are hundreds and hundreds of evidences that show that the Bible has got to be supernatural in origin. But the amazing thing we discover is that no matter how powerful the arguments are in the realm of creation and prophecy and so forth, they cannot penetrate that heart. They cannot get through to that heart. Well then what's the answer? What's the approach? God says you have... Now this is very illogical from a human standpoint. God says you have to approach the unbeliever through the third heaven. You have to go this way, through prayer, faith and obedience in relation to God on the basis of Hebrews 4 -12, the word of God, not my word or your word. The word of God is living, powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even to the dividing center of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and neither is any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom he have to... God knows that person infinitely. He knows what can reach that person, namely his precious word alone. That's one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn. Well all the things, Lord, that I've learned about how we know the Bible is true, why can't I use those arguments, those evidences? Well friends, let's stop and think for a moment. As the word of God penetrates into that unbeliever, something of infinite power has reached his heart. Now just think of the evidences Jesus If provided. you think our evidences can be effective, and they can be, and that's a whole subject of its own, think of the evidences Jesus himself gave. Stupendous sign miracles, hundreds of them. In fact, someone has suggested that every sick, crippled, leprous person in Israel, by the time Jesus' ministry was finished, was healed. Thousands of people, it says that over and over, year after year, thousands of people can heal them all, heal them all. And I say, well Lord, I should think that the whole nation then would have turned to him. Why, on one occasion, friends with a boy's lunch, he fed 5 ,000 men plus their families with food left over. And they said, they all agreed, this is John 6, let's make him king. I mean, anyone who can feed everybody for nothing supernaturally is our candidate for king. Then he began telling them about himself and who he was and that they had to believe in him on the basis of his substitutionary atoning death. And guess what happened at the end of chapter 6? They all left him. You say, that's absurd. Haven't they seen sign miracles? Yes. Miracles like the like of which had never been seen before in the history of the world? Yes. And Jesus turned to the twelve and said, are you going to believe me too? And one of them finally spoke up, of course, Peter, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Right. That's the difference. But even one of them was a doubter, Thomas, and another one was demon possessed, namely Judas. That helps me to understand what the miracles were for. Why Jesus, friends, said, an evil, adulterous nation demands signs and no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah, namely, as he was three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. In other words, his bodily resurrection is his final proof to the whole human race of who he is. The sign miracles, may I say it this way, were almost totally ineffective and worthless to convert anybody ever in Israel. That wasn't their function. It was simply to do what? To attract attention to himself as the God appointed Messiah and King of Israel so that they could then hear his message and then their response to the message would determine their eternal destiny. This is an awesome thing to think about. Now, I almost hate to read this chapter. With fear and trembling, I ask you to turn to Luke 16. This is absolutely awesome. The rich man in Hades. Luke 16, beginning with verse 19. There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Would you kindly agree with me he was in desperate condition. He had nothing of this world's goods. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. That means the place of blessing, the place of the faithful in what at that time was called paradise, the upper Sheol Hades where believers went when they died. And the rich man also died and was buried and in hell or Hades, the lower Sheol Hades, he lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom in close fellowship with him. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. That is the situation now of every unbeliever who's ever died. I just, I'm staggered by this. And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and besides all this between us and you there's a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, Lazarus can't get to you, sorry, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence and other you can't come here either. And then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that rich man in Hades and torment said to Abraham, Father, that thou would ascend into my brother's house. I have a plan. I want you to reach my living brothers by sign miracles. Now this would impress some people today because we are harassed in every direction by people who are committed to sign miracle ministries to change the hearts of people by spectacular things that they can see. Now watch the response of God through Abraham. I have five brethren that he may testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment. In other words, would you please send Lazarus, the beggar, back to the realm of the living because my five brothers often came to my mansion and saw this beggar by the door and they'd recognize him when they see him. Please send him back to the realm of the living. And I mean, think of this as an evangelistic program. He could go from house to house, knock on the doors of my brothers and say, I am back from the dead. I saw your dead brother in Hades in torment. Do you think that would get their attention? How do you like that for a sign miracle Look ministry? at God's response through Abraham. Abraham saith unto him, they have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They have the Bible. They have the Old Testament scripture. They have the infallible and errant self -authenticating word of God. In other words, that's what they need is Now, this is why he was where he was. Listen to how he despises God's word. Do you catch this? He said, nay, Father Abraham. In other words, who cares about the Bible? Old wives fabled stories for children maybe, but not for my brothers. You don't understand, sir, they're intellectuals. They're scientists. They don't accept stories supposedly from God. They want to see something that's empirical, tangible, self -evident and thus convincing. Nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. That's what they need, a sign miracle. Hmm. And here's how it ends, folks. And he said unto him, Abraham said to the rich man, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. Really? Well, that's what happened when Jesus arose from the dead. The whole story of the book of Acts is that in spite of the fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled his promise, he said, you destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it again. And he did and rose from the dead. And the apostles preached the resurrection of Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees hated the message and threatened and tormented God's servants for mentioning resurrection, even of Jesus. Oh yes, friends, even if one rises from the dead, they will not repent. You know what Jesus did for his friend Lazarus one day in Bethany? He raised him from the dead. Lazarus, come forth. I'm very impressed by what happened, aren't you? Immediately, the corpse stood at the entrance of the tomb and he said, loose him and let him go. He's fine. He's alive. Probably felt better than he had in his previous life. He didn't have to be dragged out half dead for recuperation. Don't you think all the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees would have just swamped the whole, I mean, that settles it. We believe. Read what happened next. The enemies of Jesus got together and made a decision. Just for that, we're going to kill Lazarus and Jesus. Hmm, that doesn't sound intelligent. Well, that's the problem because the mind of man, which is an aspect of the soul, heart, spirit of man in his sinfulness, his darkness cannot function intelligently. Only the spirit of God can bring us reason to see God's realities as they really are. And I say, well, Lord, I just didn't know it was this bad. I just desperately need your help then to accomplish what is otherwise impossible. Help me to preach the word faithfully, clearly, completely, without compromise, graciously, patiently, in season, out of season, love people, whether they receive me, accept me, appreciate me or not, because the word of God has infinite power. I don't. He has it. He alone has it. Now, friends, there is a way in which Christian evidences can be used. I just want to be very careful here not to disparage the things that God has given us in the way of evidences. Let's take a look. The low value of Christian evidences, among other methods, shall by this all men, unsaved men who lack spiritual discernment to understand scripture, by this, Jesus said, shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another, John 13, 35. So the ultimate models for mutual Christian love in a godless world must be the Christian home and the local church. Now, think carefully of that statement, Jesus, that's the greatest of Christian evidences. When you go forth to a mission field, whether it's New Zealand or wherever, something you can do under God is undeniable and irresistible. And here it is. Demonstrate to the people to whom God sends you that you know what Christian love is in your relationship, husband and wife and parents and children and children to parents and hopefully other Christians and a little tiny microcosm of the Holy Spirit called a local church that God will plant there and the godless surrounding population sooner or later will have to see something they have never seen before and can't explain and can't duplicate. Christian love. Why, there are all kinds of evidences, friends, that are helpful, like maybe, you know, medical missions, helping people physically, that'll get their attention. Maybe hospitality, maybe English language courses in China or wherever, people almost do anything to learn English and you get them there and you demonstrate, you know, the things that they're interested in and show friendship. But you see, Jesus said, the greatest evidence we have that will really get people's attention is Christian love, one for another in the home and in a local church that God will plant here and there around the world. You see, friends, Jesus never said miracles will do the trick. He said to the apostles, you remember in John 14, the miracles that I've done you'll do also. And they did, they raised the dead, I mean Peter and Paul, I mean amazing sign miracles they did in the early church, book of Acts. But do you know what else he said, friends? Greater works than these shall you do because I go to my Father. And what are the greater works? Preaching the gospel, which when believed brings eternal life instantly. But the sign miracles Jesus performed never saved anybody. Did you know that? They were spectacular, they were undeniable. But every person Jesus healed got sick again anyway and died, every one of them. He didn't permanently solve anybody's problem physically. He fed 5 ,000 the next day they were all hungry again. Didn't solve their hunger problem. But Jesus said, because I'm going to my Father in heaven and send the Holy Spirit and create the church and grant unto you the scriptures, you will have the capacity under God to mastermind this book and make it known to people and you'll see greater works. I mean Peter the apostle, folks, preached one sermon and 3 ,000 men were saved in one day and saved forever. Vastly greater miracle than healing the sick and walking on water, which Peter also did. Don't try that, by the way, unless Jesus does to you what he did to him, namely says come. Don't try that. I have been fascinated, obsessed I guess is the word, with the mentality today that you have to have intellectual brilliance and you have to have spectacular miracles to attract anybody and to have any credibility as a member, as a representative of God. I've done a little booklet in fact that's out there and maybe have helped you. Does God want Christians to perform miracles today? No. In fact, you know what would happen? It'd be a regression. It'd be a step, giant step backwards because we'd be going back to the lower foundation of the church in the apostolic era before the superstructure was built on a completed scripture. In those days it was a unique way for God to give the apostles opportunity to attract attention, but now friends we have something they didn't have, the completed Bible. God says you master this book and sooner or later one way or another you follow my guidelines and instruction and you mastermind the basics of evangelism and church planning and missions and witness and you will have infinite power from above through this book that pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. And I say Lord, I desperately need your help. This book friend is so powerful that even when you preach it without love it'll change people forever. Did you know that? Paul tells us in Philippians 1 there are other people here in Rome that are offended by my being here and they don't like me and they don't appreciate me but they are preaching the truth and I will rejoice in it and I will continue to rejoice because even without love which is often the way we preach like on a radio station you never even see the people or hand out a tract and you see the people disappear you never see them again. Even under those situations the word of God has infinite power. Let me tell you a man who preached the word without love, Jonah. He hated every minute of his ministry. He said God why didn't you destroy these people? That wasn't a loving approach to missions. But you know what he did? He preached the word and the whole city repented and Jesus said it wasn't fakie either. He said Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah and will rise up in the last generation and condemn this generation. I mean he must have preached more than just judgment. He must have said something about God. It's my opinion. The whole city repented even though he hated every one of them in Nineveh. But that's why God says preach the truth as we were reminded this morning. Preach the truth in love and you'll have even more effect. Yes, but whatever you do folks, hold on, preach the truth. That's the point. That's the power, the truth and hopefully it's done in love and graciously and prayerfully and patiently but whatever you do and whatever your motive and whatever the circumstances, preach the word. And I say thank you Lord, that settles it. I think I'll be a Bible believing Christian and a Bible believing teacher and I want to honor Jesus Christ and the blessed Holy Spirit who presented this book to us because that's an irresistible force. Even in a world dominated by what? Satan, millions of demons, billions of depraved people and even mice in nature. God says watch me. I have a special weapon, an instrument I'm putting into your hand and your mind and heart. Watch what I can do almost in spite of you for my glory through my word. Father in heaven, I just stand amazed at how you operate. Everything sooner or later will be for your glory or it will disappear. Help me to examine there for my own ministry. The church could be raptured to heaven and I and all of us will be confronted by the Lord Jesus with eyes like a flame of fire searching us, examining us to see whether we really have done the work of God in a godly way, in obedience, in faithfulness for his glory. Help me to be ready at any moment to give an account to you dear Father because that's why you sent me not to gain glory for myself or any of us as teachers and proclaimers of the truth but to glorify the Savior apart from whom we're lost forever and the blessed Holy Spirit who gave us this precious book. May ABC father stand brightly in a darkening world as a true reflector of the light of Jesus Christ until he comes I pray in his glorious name for his sake. Amen. If God's word has made an impact on you today we'd love to hear about it. Just leave us a comment at facebook .com slash Whitcomb Ministries where there's always something to encourage you. You can also find lots more on the subject of apologetics at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb. Find that page from our website WhitcombMinistries .org. You're listening to Encounter God's Truth from Whitcomb Ministries and we're grateful for the opportunity to emphasize week after week that God's word is true from the beginning to the end offering timeless truths for changing times. I'd like to close with a reading from Psalm 103. Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all his benefits who forgives all your iniquity who heals all your diseases who redeems your life from the pit who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. For everyone here at Encounter God's Truth I'm Wayne Shepherd praying for the Lord to fill this week ahead with much meaning and many blessings. Thanks for listening.
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"This weekend on Encounter God's Truth, Dr. John Whitcomb finishes his series on Biblical apologetics. God knows that person infinitely. He knows what can reach that person, namely His precious Word alone. Listen to Encounter God's Truth and hear the conclusion of a message called The Necessity of God's Word.
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"Welcome Encounter to God's Truth, a weekly half hour of Bible teaching from Whitcomb Ministries and Dr. John Whitcomb. I'm Wayne Shepard and we'll be going back to Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia today to hear more from our series on biblical apologetics. We're going to begin the final lesson in our study. It's called The Necessity of God's Word. In this program we'll see that we have a power source that's readily available, which allows us, as mere finite human beings, to have victory and influence in the spiritual realm, even though we're opposed by all the enemies of God and His gospel, both human and demonic, as well as our own sin natures. What is the power source that can give us this victory? It's nothing hidden or mysterious, but something that's readily available to each one of us. It's God's Word, which is infinitely sufficient to meet our need, and as we teach every week here and encounter God's truth, it's true from the beginning to the end. If you've missed any of the earlier messages in this series, remember, you can always review them again in our library at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb. But right now, we join the students and faculty assembled at Appalachian Bible College with this important message on The Necessity of God's Word. Dr. Anderson and friends, it has been a joyful privilege to be back again at ABC and to share from God's precious, infallible, and errant Word, His perspectives on our personal life, testimony, and witness in ministry. I trust you've already begun to grasp just a little bit in our previous three messages that God's infallible Word is absolutely essential for effective witness to Him, no matter what the opposition may be. In fact, God tells us very clearly that the opposition to His Word, as far as we're concerned, from our perspective, is infinite. To Him, Satan, demons, depraved people are infinitesimal in contrast to His sovereignty and His glory in heaven. But as far as you and I are concerned, it is a hopeless obstacle to effective witness for Christ the Lord. If we depend upon ourselves. Now, we have already seen something of the amazing opposition, haven't we? The problems that make our ministry and our testimony hopeless in terms of converting anybody, of seeing anybody saved, namely, the fact of human depravity in 1 Corinthians and Romans and Psalms, all through the Scriptures, in fact, from Genesis to Revelation. And we understand what human depravity means, not that everyone is as bad as they can be, or that some people don't do some good things. Jesus talked about those and Paul, too, who are relatively good people. For a good man, some would even dare to die, we read. But as far as attaining God's standards, minimal standards of acceptance into His presence, we're sinful. hopelessly Now, friends, on top of all that and because of that, we have God's revelation concerning the function of Satan to help sinful people do their sinning more effectively. Isn't that an amazing comprehension that God has given us of His function? Yes, if people want to be helped by Satan to be more effective to oppose God, He's available. But the situation isn't hopeless for believers. If we humble ourselves beneath the mighty hand of God, we can then rebuke the devil and he will what? Flee from us, just as Michael the Archangel discovered, remember, in contending over the body of Moses. Satan is awesome in his power as far as you and I are concerned. In his vast army of hundreds of millions of demons, how can a mere finite human being possibly cope with such opposition? And, of course, in addition to our sin nature and the sin nature of the unbeliever and Satan and his armies of demons, we realize, friends, that only God's precious Word can help us see victory. The Word of God, Hebrews 4 -12, the Word of God is quick, that's alive, living and powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even the dividing center of soul and spirit, is a discern of the thoughts and intents of the heart, neither is there any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. However awesome the opposition may be according to God's plan. God's Word is infinitely sufficient to accomplish what you and I and all our brilliance or experience or maturity or self -esteem could never, ever achieve in turning people from sin to righteousness, from Satan to God. Well, think of 2 Timothy 4 -2, in the light of this, preach the Word, Paul says. How often? In season and out of season. In other words, whether people appreciate it or whether they don't appreciate it is totally irrelevant. Continue preaching the Word. And sometimes it may take years to see an effect. I remember vividly the awesome choice I had when I first came to know Christ as my Savior at Princeton University in that dormitory room in February of 1943. I was an only child, my mother and dad were not believers. How could I help them? It took 30 long years, dear friends, of prayer and hopefully a careful, patient witness of the grace of God and the sufficiency of Jesus to see my Father finally, when he came to live with us after my mother died, to respond to the Gospel. Years and years and years, but God is in no hurry. You don't rush things and compromise the message in order to have immediate results. No, no. God, as for God, his ways are perfect and he wants his Word honored. Now, let's consider 2 Timothy 2, 23. I'm always fascinated by this statement. How does a true servant of the Lord function in the light of this situation we have just outlined? The servant of the Lord must not strive. Don't pressure people. Don't manipulate people. We often wonder, don't we, sometimes in great evangelistic campaigns we hear about and have seen and perhaps even attended occasionally. It's almost as if it's impossible not to go forward when the invitation is given. In fact, some evangelists sadly pressure people, manipulate people and embarrass people who don't stand up and come forward to make a public decision. And of course, we are not criticizing making public decisions. We're so thrilled at what we saw God do last night here. And I say, thank you, Lord, for that. But the tendency, the temptation is to pressure people into making a decision which later they regret and it's even harder than ever then to win these people to the Lord if they have a sense that they have been pressured or manipulated. Watch these words. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men after capable of teaching, patient. Don't be pushy. Don't pressure people because it's not finite pressure, it's infinite pressure from the Holy Spirit that's going to bring the transformation. And by the way, when God does it, it lasts forever. When I do it, it never lasts. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, who is their worst enemy themselves? Not you. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, God has to change the heart. God has to change the mind. The heart and mind is God's special realm of operation, see, to the acknowledging of the truth, the truth about God, Christ, sin, salvation, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. Here's his function, you see, his snare, his trap, who are taken captive by him at his will. Now, the whole scenario is presented in this brief passage that I've just read. And I say, Lord, that's an amazing outline for Christian ministry and the dynamics of how people are going to be convicted of sin and born again. God will do the work as we patiently, humbly, graciously, but clearly present his plan of salvation to lost people around us. Now, let's consider then 2 Corinthians 2 .16. A born again Christian has an enormous influence if he walks with God in a godless world. How do you like this statement? Let's begin with verse 14. Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. Some of the things we've had to look at in the Bible have maybe created a sense of depression and defeat. Lord, if people are that bad and I'm that bad, and Satan is that powerful and demons are that plentiful, then how can we ever do anything for you? Well, thanks be unto God, said Paul, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. We're on the victory side, dear friends, there's a battle going on. And maketh manifest the savor or the fragrance of his knowledge by us in every place. As we were reminded by our Dr. Herbster, may your face attract attention and create a question, why are you so joyful? Why are you, you're different. Do you attract attention that way to the fact that God has changed your life and your heart and your mind and your direction and goal? Listen, listen. And maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. As you give out a gospel tract, do it with a smile. Maybe gain attention by saying something gracious or something encouraging that may open up an opportunity to build step by step into someone's heart by the Holy Spirit. For we are unto God a sweet savor or a fragrance of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the one we are the savor or fragrance of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life unto life. And I like this question, don't you, even from the Apostle Paul. Who is sufficient for these things? My friends, we're in an infinite operation here that determines the eternal destiny of human beings in heaven or hell. Who's sufficient for these things? For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ. Now friends, we can just begin to realize the magnitude of God's plan here in form of a little chart. I hope this will be of some help to you as it has to me from time to time. Over here we have symbolized the unbeliever with a darkened heart that doesn't have cleansing and purifying and forgiveness and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the unbeliever. And notice that he is surrounded by an impenetrable barrier to any outside finite pressure. It's called his sinful nature. And over here we've tried to depict the believer whose heart has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit based on the merits of Jesus Christ. And the believer may fall into the serious temptation of trying to win the unbeliever on a horizontal basis. Namely, just provide Christian evidences to penetrate that heart through logic and philosophy and history and science. And by the way, all these arguments that we've talked about through archaeology and history and logic, I mean there are hundreds and hundreds of evidences that show that the Bible has got to be supernatural in origin. But the amazing thing we discover is that no matter how powerful the arguments are in the realm of creation and prophecy and so forth, they cannot penetrate that heart. They cannot get through to that heart. Well then, what's the answer? What's the approach? God says you have... Now this is very illogical from a human standpoint. God says you have to approach the unbeliever through the third heaven. You have to go this way. Through prayer, faith and obedience in relation to God on the basis of Hebrews 4 -12. The word of God, not my word or your word. The word of God is living, powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and neither is any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom he have to... God knows that person infinitely. He knows what can reach that person, namely his precious word alone. That's one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn. Well all the things, Lord, that I've learned about how we know the Bible is true, why can't I use those arguments, those evidences? Well friends, let's stop and think for a moment. As the word of God penetrates into that unbeliever, something of infinite power has reached his heart. Now just think of the evidences Jesus provided. If you think our evidences can be effective, and they can be, and that's a whole subject of its own, think of the evidences Jesus himself gave. Stupendous sign miracles, hundreds of them. In fact, someone has suggested that every sick, crippled, leprous person in Israel by the time Jesus' ministry was finished was healed. Thousands of people, it says that over and over, year after year, thousands of people can heal them all, heal them all, heal them all. And I say, well Lord, I should think that the whole nation then would have turned to him. Why, on one occasion, friends with a boy's lunch, he fed 5 ,000 men plus their families with food left over. And they said, they all agreed, this is John 6, let's make him king. I mean, anyone who can feed everybody for nothing supernaturally is our candidate for king. Then he began telling them about himself and who he was and that they had to believe in him on the basis of his substitutionary atoning death. And guess what happened at the end of chapter 6? They all left him. You say, that's ridiculous, that's absurd. Hadn't they seen sign miracles? Yes. Miracles like the like of which had never been seen before in the history of the world? Yes. And Jesus turned to the twelve and said, are you going to leave me too? And one of them finally spoke up, of course, Peter. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Right. That's the difference. But even one of them was a doubter, Thomas, and another one was demon possessed, namely Judas. That left ten out of thousands by the end of that day. And I say, Lord, that helps me to understand what the miracles were for. Why, Jesus, friends, said, an evil adulterous nation demands signs and no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah, namely, as he was three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. In other words, his bodily resurrection is his final proof to the whole human race of who he is. The sign miracles, may I say it this way, were almost totally ineffective and worthless to convert anybody ever in Israel. That wasn't their function. It was simply to do what? To attract attention to himself as the God appointed Messiah and King of Israel so that they could then hear his message and then their response to the message would determine their eternal destiny. This is an awesome thing to think about. Now, I almost hate to read this chapter. With fear and trembling, I ask you to turn to Luke 16. This is absolutely awesome. The rich man in Hades. Luke 16, beginning with verse 19. There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Would you kindly agree with me? He was in desperate condition. He had nothing of this world's goods. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. That means the place of blessing, the place of the faithful in what at that time was called paradise. The upper Sheol Hades where believers went when they died. And the rich man also died and was buried and in hell or Hades, the lower Sheol Hades, he lifted up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom in close fellowship with him. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. That is the situation now of every unbeliever who's ever died. I just, I'm staggered by this. And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and besides all this between us and you there's a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, Lazarus can't get to you, sorry, neither can they pass to us that they that would come from thence, and other you can't come here either. And then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that rich man in Hades and torments said to Abraham, Father, that thou would ascend into my brother's house. I have a plan. I want you to reach my living brothers by sign miracles. Now this would impress some people today because we are harassed in every direction by people who are committed to sign miracle ministries. To the change hearts of people by spectacular things that they can see. Now watch the response of God through Abraham. I have five brethren that he may testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment. In other words, would you please send Lazarus, the beggar, back to the realm of the living because my five brothers often came to my mansion and saw this beggar by the door and they would recognize him when they see him. Please send him back to the realm of the living. And I mean, think of this as an evangelistic program. He could go from house to house, knock on the doors of my brothers and say, I am back from the dead. I saw your dead brother in Hades in torment. Do you think that would get their attention? How do you like that for a sign miracle ministry? Look at God's response through Abraham. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They have the Bible. They have the Old Testament scripture. They have the infallible, inerrant, self -authenticating word of God. In other words, that's what they need is the Bible. The truth inscripturated by the Holy Spirit. But he said, now this is why he was where he was. Listen to how he despises God's word. Do you catch this? He said, Nay, Father Abraham. In other words, who cares about the Bible? Old wives' fables, stories for children maybe, but not for my brothers. You don't understand, sir, they're intellectuals. They're scientists. They don't accept stories supposedly from God. They want to see something that's empirical, tangible, self -evident and thus convincing. Nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. That's what they need, a sign miracle. And here's how it ends, folks. And he said unto him, Abraham said to the rich man, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Really? Well, that's what happened when Jesus arose from the dead. The whole story of the book of Acts is that in spite of the fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled his promise, he said, You destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it again. And he did and rose from the dead. And the apostles preached the resurrection of Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees hated the message and threatened and tormented God's servants for mentioning resurrection even of Jesus. Oh yes, friends, even if one rises from the dead, they will not repent. You know what Jesus did for his friend Lazarus one day in Bethany? He raised him from the dead. Lazarus, come forth. I'm very impressed by what happened, aren't you? Immediately the corpse stood at the entrance of the tomb and he said, Loose him and let him go. He's fine. He's alive. Probably felt better than he had in his previous life. He didn't have to be dragged out half dead for recuperation. Don't you think all the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees would have just swamped the whole? I mean, that settles it. We believe. Read what happened next. The enemies of Jesus got together and made a decision. Just for that, we're going to kill Lazarus and Jesus. That doesn't sound intelligent. Well, that's the problem because the mind of man, which is an aspect of the soul, heart, spirit of man in his sinfulness, his darkness, cannot function intelligently. Only the Spirit of God can bring us reason to see God's realities as they really are. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing to one, a fragrance from death to death, to the other, a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not like so many peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God in the sight of God, we speak Christ. On the basis of these words from the Apostle Paul, Dr. John Whitcomb has been teaching us about biblical apologetics on this edition of Encounter God's Truth. Please keep in touch with us at Facebook .com slash Whitcomb Ministries, and you can find that link easily at WhitcombMinistries .org. I'm Wayne Shepard, praying for God to use His word in your life today. Thank you for joining us.
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"How do you respond when unbelievers aren't enthusiastic about your witness for the gospel of Jesus Christ? How should we handle such opposition? Can a common Christian be expected to explain the gospel to someone who is more knowledgeable in worldly things? Dr. John Whitcomb has been teaching the Bible and apologetics for many decades, and he utilizes that experience to answer those questions today on Encounter God's Truth. I'm your host, Wayne Shepard, and we're in the middle of a sermon entitled The Necessity of God's Power as we continue a series on biblical apologetics. It was recorded live at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia, and Whitcomb Ministries thanks them for allowing us to bring you these messages. Today's lesson is vitally important in helping us learn how to share our faith with those who disagree and resist the message of God's grace. It goes into detail regarding the power source that influences unbelievers, namely Satan and his demons, and how they relate to history and prophecy. Please stay with us now and track with us in your own Bible if you can as Dr. Whitcomb deals with these significant issues. We open with a short review from last time looking at Isaiah chapter 64. And we all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away and there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirs up himself to take hold of thee for thou has hid thy face from us and has consumed us because of our iniquities. Now this is Isaiah, probably the greatest Old Testament writing prophet, you see, whose sin nature was judicially purged away in that confrontation with God in chapter 6, one of the most amazing encounters with the living God ever recorded. And it's Isaiah who says, we, our iniquities, not somebody else's. You all know Jeremiah 17 9, the heart of man is what? Deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Like God said of the human race before the flood, and by the way, God makes it clear, he didn't wipe out the human race except for one family for no real legitimate reason. God looked down upon the human race and saw that the iniquity of man was great and that every thought of the intent of his heart was only evil continually. I'll give you my opinion on that. No human being, even with a fallen, sinful, depraved nature, can be that bad, that consistently without demonic help. I think the whole pre -flood world was not only depraved but demonized. That every thought of the intent of their heart was always evil. Always. Hmm. And so God, of course, I mean, my problem with the Genesis flood is not that God wiped out the human race, but that he waited hundreds of years for people to repent through the preaching of Noah because God is long suffering, not what? Willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And Noah preached and proclaimed and warned and appealed, pled with people, come into the ark, there's a flood coming. And people laughed and laughed. And Jesus said, in those days, men were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage, all of which is fine, except that's all they live for. Just feeding and multiplying and animals can do that too. And God did not do what? He didn't create human beings in his image and likeness do nothing more than animals do. They had no thought for him, no response to his word, no interest whatever. And therefore, it said they understood not until Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. You say, isn't that a little bit extreme? Did you know that many Christians are offended by the Genesis flood account? Maybe one billion people. You mean only one family was saved. Isn't that an overkill? You know what's really amazing? I mean, I'm trying to be biblical. Would you pray for me? The amazing thing that anybody was saved. You say, well, Noah and his family were perfect. Oh, you know better. There were eight sin natures in the ark, which after the flood what proliferated and became what total blasphemers in the Tower of Babel project and later, of course, crucified Jesus and someday the Antichrist will be also a descendant of that family. And we say, Lord, help me to see things from your perspective. The fact that you even put up with the human race at all is an astounding thing in scripture in the light of what we are. And by the way, that's why God will never send another flood because Genesis 8 21 says that God said, never again will I destroy the earth as I have done because man is what? Is wicked from his youth up. You say, well, that sounds like a good reason to have a global flood every 100 years. No, a thousand floods, a million, would never modify our sin nature. And so God said that was once and enough to demonstrate who's in the next flood till the fire comes at the end of the world. The fire flood. Well, friends, here we are. This is our problem. And I say, Lord, we have a sin problem. Even the natural man, however nice, receives not the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness him neither can you know them. They're spiritually discerned or praised. Romans 8 7, even while we were sinners or enemies, Christ died for us. Psalm 14, the fool says in his heart, what? There's no God. Romans 5 8 and so forth. I mean, these passages, friends, totally destroy any little thought we may have had that we can be persuasive in changing people's minds about God and his word. Okay. Oh, but we have another problem. Not only sin, but who? Satan. Oh my. Whenever you talk to an unsaved person, the Bible tells you this for you're talking to at least two persons, one of whom's invisible and maybe more. And that invisible one is Satan, who's the God of this world. And, you know, the Bible makes it so clear that Satan has, you know, enormous power. Turn to Ephesians six. Would you please listen to this? We learned in Ephesians chapter two that people walk according to the prince of the power of the air, who is the spirit that now worketh and the children of disobedience. Look at Ephesians six, verse 11. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. By the way, he has all kinds of names. Satan, devil, the prince, the God of this world, the prince of the power of the air. Listen to this. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, against mere human beings. Oh, you see, that's rationalistic apologetics. I have better arguments than you have about God and the Bible. I, when you lose, you're now converted. I have heard of, I have attended a couple creation evolution debates. And my friend Henry Morris and now the recently retired Duane Gish, I mean, these men are fantastic debaters. And they have won every debate. There have been hundreds of them in great major universities around the world, hundreds of them. I feel sorry for an evolutionist who is going to debate Henry Morris or Duane Gish or these other men in the creation science movement who have memorized hundreds and hundreds of arguments. They know better than the evolutionist does what his argument is going to be and how to answer them. They've never lost a man outwitted them. He did, he talked and talked and talked and never let them have a chance to answer. So he won. See, and most of them know they're going to be defeated and end up doing what? Using ad hominem arguments insulting the creationist, you see, because they can't answer his arguments, his evidences. They're overwhelming. They're undeniable. But let me ask a question. How many of the evolutionists who are defeated say, look, that's it. I unconditionally surrender now to Jesus. Where's the nearest church? No. In fact, it's almost like they're hardened even more in their hatred against the God of the Bible, the God of creation. That's very mysterious. Okay. I'm not saying that a creation argument can't be used of God, as we shall see, God willing tonight, to help people at least pay attention to some of the things you might have to say. And the best creation science debate scenario, in my opinion, is when you walk out the door of the auditorium after the debate's over with and somebody gives you a gospel of John or a Bible tract or an invitation to a Bible study and you say, well, let me hear more. And you might use some of that wisely, you see, as a serpent, harmlessly like a dove, to get people within the sound of the what? Of the gospel. But the debate won't convert people. You sort of knew that, didn't you? It's hard for me to realize it, but dear friends, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, against mere debaters, against mere evolutionists, against mere atheists, but against what? Principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand an evil day, and having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the what? The fiery darts of the wicked or the evil one. 2 Corinthians 4 -3, if our gospel behead, if people can't see it, appreciate it, love the Savior you're telling about, is because what? The God of this world has blinded them. They may not see the Christ who's the light of the world. They can't see. I mean, Jesus talked, you know, in Matthew 13 about going forth sowing the seed. And you say, well, now wait a minute here. There's something unfair about this statement Jesus made because he said after the seed is sown, Satan comes and takes the seed away. My, it falls on hardened soil, irresponsible, irresponsive soil, and he takes it away. He blinds people. You say, well, that's not fair. That's a serious problem in the Bible. But men are responsible. It's like Pharaoh. Did God harden his heart? Did he harden his own heart? You see, there's a mysterious interaction. If you don't want the truth, you'll be further blinded. If you resist the word of God, Satan comes in and makes it even harder for you, and even harder, and even harder. And in rare cases in the lifetime of Jesus, and I think in the coming tribulation, people will be so hardened, they'll actually say of antichrist miracles, they are from God, and they will take his mark on forehand and right hand, and they're doomed before they die. They've committed the unpardonable sin. Some could do that when Jesus was here. When they saw his miracles, they said what? They're from Satan. They blaspheme the Holy Spirit, who confirmed the identity of their Messiah with sign miracles. This is awesome, friends. Now, I think the only unpardonable sin in the church age is you just keep rejecting the gospel. Until, and it's never too late, until when? Until you're dead. Then it's over. You're done forever. God says don't underestimate your enemy. Don't think you can manipulate him. You handle him. Outsmart him. No, no. Why, the greatest angel in the righteous angelic universe is Michael. He's the archangel. That means, number one, he's tops of righteous angels. And he was appointed by God on one occasion to protect the body of Moses in a distant remote region of the Dead Sea. Nobody ever saw him die. God buried him. And Satan came along to desecrate that body. Now, can you imagine the scenario here, friends? This is the night of the book of Jude, chapter 9, verse 9. Let me imagine the interchange, okay? Satan comes and says to Michael, step aside. I'm taking that body. I hated Moses for 40 years, and I'm going to destroy and desecrate the body. In the Old Testament times and in many parts of the world today, the way you're buried tells a lot about who you are. Did you know that? The body is precious to God. I mean, it's not essential. He can raise you from the dead without your body being visible. That's another issue. But Michael said, in effect, no, you can't. I mean, I was appointed by God just because he knew you would show up. You can't touch this body. And Satan says, well, you don't know who I am, do you? Did you know Satan is higher than Michael? Satan is the greatest creature in the universe. Read about him in Ezekiel 28. Oh, friends, Michael finally gave up arguing with a superior being. And he used presuppositional apologetics. Listen to this one. The Lord rebuke you, and that ended it. In other words, I can't handle you, but I know somebody who can. And I'm going to turn you over to my God. Goodbye. That's you. That is I. Lord, I can't handle this person. I need your divine help. I'm facing something vastly superior to any of my intellectual capacities to manipulate people. Help me to depend on you. You know what that is? That's an apologetic with power and passion. If you're going to have any effect on people, if you're going to be dynamic, irresistible, if you're going to win people to Jesus Christ forever and ever, you better be locked into a power system that is greater than yourself. Thank you, Lord. Now, friends, let's just take a little interlude here and look at the history of Satan, shall we? Satan's stages of downfall. You know, he had a great start. He was the anointing cherub that covered the presence of God. He was perfect in beauty. But then he had an evil thought, just one thought. I want to be like the Most High. And instantly, out he went. It didn't drag on with courts of appeal for months and years, trust me. And Jesus saw it happen. He said, I beheld Satan like lightning fall from heaven. It was instantaneous. Now, that's perfect justice. Human governments can't handle that. Watch how Jesus does it. Out he went, folks. That was his moral and spiritual fall, and perhaps 200 million demons fell with him. Jesus calls fallen angels demons. And then what happened? He experienced a second fall at the Genesis flood. Now, this is not well known, and this is based on some inferences. Okay. We read in 2 Peter and Jude that the angels that kept not their first estate, but went after strange flesh, those specially wicked ones, are now confined in chains and pits of darkness until the judgment of the great day. Who were they? Those are the ones at the time of the flood who, according to Genesis 6, you remember, took women and the sons of God, are who angels went after women, and God confined them at the Genesis flood forever to the place of judgment. I mean, they have no further access to human beings. And when Jesus the Lord showed up 2 ,000 years ago, do you know what the other demons said to him who had not been cast down into the Tartarus pit? They said, we know who you are, you son of the abbess, the pit. They still have access, I mean, millions of demons, but others are gone. They're gone. Now, friends, here was the final blow. Jesus said, now is the prince of this world cast out, and here's Genesis 3 15, and he will crush the serpent's head. And that was Calvary's cross. Maybe Satan was suspicious with suspicion that something bad would happen to himself, and he told Peter to tell Jesus what, don't go to Jerusalem and die. And Jesus said to Peter, get thee behind me, Satan. You say, well, if he was crushed at Calvary, then how come he's a roaring lion roaming around the world seeking whom he may devour? This is a deep mystery. I mean, did you know the Bible's full of difficult topics? He was judicially destroyed, but not actually. He is doomed legally, see, but God gave him an extension of activity during the church age to test the saints. See, that's very hard. I mean, just like Job chapter one, where Satan came to God and said, and God said, have you seen my servant Job? And Satan, I mean, this is so awful, I hate to quote it. And Satan said to God, oh, look, you've hedged him about, look at all the things you've done for him. You just take away those things and he'll curse you to your face. Ouch. You know what I would do if I were writing the book of Job? I'd say, God would say to him, look, I don't like you anymore. Kindly vanish forever. Now, why is Satan still here? Okay, the mystery of iniquity. Now, folks, Michael himself will have revenge on Satan someday in the middle of the seventh week of Daniel. He and his armies of righteous angels will be allowed by God to defeat Satan and his armies and cast them out of the third heaven where he has access. See, right now, Revelation 12 says Satan has access to the third heaven to do what? To accuse the brethren night and day. And he's right there now accusing you and me of all kinds of things for which we deserve an eternal hell. And the only answer Jesus can give him or needs to give him is what? Well, you're right, sir, he is really not a perfect person. And we only take perfect persons up here. But I died for him and I took his sin on myself and transferred my righteous to him goodbye. Now, you know, that's Zechariah chapter three, Joshua the high priest was filthy and Satan was there accusing him. And God said to him, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. Out of here. And clothed him, you see, in fresh clean garments representing what you and I wear in the sight of a holy God by virtue of his merits through his blood. Well, that's not the end for Satan. He's cast down knowing his time is short and he has three and a half more years on this planet to empower the antichrist, his human masterpiece, number two and who's the person in the Trinity of evil? And who's the second person? The antichrist, the beast. And the third person is who? The false prophet who performs miracles and transforms the statue of the antichrist into a living being that will kill people who won't bow before it. Talk about satanic miracles like the ones you know that Pharaoh's henchmen did in the court of Egypt to oppose Moses and Aaron. And what were their names? Janus and Jambres. Hmm. Wow. Satan will have enormous power for the final three and a half years. That's why it is called the great tribulation, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, those three and a half final years. And Satan will almost take over the world. Jesus said, unless those days are shortened, no flesh will survive. Say, thank you, Lord. I am a part of your bride and your body and you're not going to allow me to suffer the wrath of man or the wrath of Satan or the wrath of God in that awful period of time. Thank you for the pre -tribulation rapture. I heard three saying amen. Think of it, friends. We're going to be gone before this happens. Then comes what? The second coming of Christ, the Armageddon encounter and Satan and all his demons and the antichrist and the false prophet are cast down into the pit, the obeses. And there they will remain for a thousand years. But the amazing, amazing thing is that after a thousand years, Satan is going to be released again for a little time to test the nations who have been basking under the blessing of a perfect government, perfect economy, perfect environment for a thousand years. But many children are born, billions of people are born into the kingdom who've never really made a personal choice. And just like God had to do for Adam and Eve, he'll say, I'm going to give you a very, very credible choice alternative to me. And back comes Satan and enormous masses of people follow him like sand of the sea from multitude. And finally what? Fire comes from heaven and devours them all and consumes planet earth and the moon, the other eight planets, their moons, the sun, all the other stars and galaxies and the heavens and earth flee away from him who sits upon the throne. There'll be no place found for them. And Satan and the demons and those who never believed Jesus are consigned forever and ever to the lake of fire. And those who love Jesus and made a choice for him. Yes, even in the presence of satanic alternatives will be in God's heaven forever and ever. And I say, Lord, I just need help here. These are enormous things that are going on that I can't even see with my unaided eye. But through your precious word, these things come to light and you give me understanding that I need to be effective for you and patient and gracious and loving and prayerful, knowing that apart from you, I can do a thing. Help me, I pray in Jesus name. Amen. Do you have questions about what you're hearing in this series of biblical apologetics? Please share your thoughts with us at facebook .com slash Whitcomb ministries, and we'll try to respond and make use of your questions and comments. You can pass this message along to anyone at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb and point them to many additional resources at Whitcombministries .org. I want to read a portion of Psalm 107 to you before we depart. Until next time, I'm Wayne Shepard. Thanks for listening to encounter God's truth, where we teach every week that God's word is true from the beginning to the end.
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A highlight from The Necessity of God's Power (Part 1)
"God's Word has infinite power, and God's Word is true from the beginning to the end. And today on Encounter God's Truth, Bible teacher Dr. John Whitcomb presents part one of a message called The Necessity of God's Power. The Bible clearly explains that every person possesses a sin nature that renders us totally depraved. This desperate condition requires God's perfect ability in order to make it possible for anyone to believe the Gospel and be saved. This can never be accomplished by our feeble attempts to manipulate or trick people into accepting the Gospel. In this lesson, Dr. Whitcomb unfolds the place that arguments and evidences for the Christian faith should have and are witnessed in light of both the total depravity of man and the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. If you have your Bible, you'll want to follow and listen carefully as we turn to a number of different passages in both the Old and New Testaments. I'm your host, Wayne Shepard, inviting you to go with me now inside the auditorium at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia, for this installment in our series Biblical Apologetics. Here's Dr. Whitcomb. And friends, I greet you once again in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and what a name that is. Through Him, the whole universe was created, including the angels at the dawn of earth history. And through Him, the whole world is sustained, upheld, and directed. He's the Lord of history. Through His precious blood, we have been redeemed, confirmed by His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and He is coming again, perhaps today, to catch His bride away, to meet Him in the air. Are we ready? And He will come and establish His kingdom upon the earth. He will be the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is not only the Alpha, He is the Omega, the beginning and the end. And what a name, well known in the third heaven, the name we must know to approach God the Father. Now friends, we are faced in this world with an impossible commission. The Lord Jesus said, make disciples of all nations. And then He added some more impossible things. These disciples are to openly publicly identify with the three persons of the triune Godhead, the second person being Jesus of Nazareth. Now for a Jew, that would be an impossible commitment. You mean that mere man who died on a cross? How could he be the second person of a triune Godhead? And so we're to be baptized into the name of the Father and into the name of the Son and into the name of the Holy Spirit. And we are to teach people to observe all things whatsoever He has commanded us. You say that is impossible, impossible. In a godless world, a selfish world, a satanically dominated world, a sinful world, and therefore He guarantees it will work. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. And without Him, we can do nothing. And that's our purpose these days together, dear friends, yesterday. And I trust as well tonight. How do we accomplish the impossible task? Certainly not by shriveling it down and minimizing it so it's manageable by finite minds like ours. No, no. We don't compromise anything. Jesus said you're to teach them all things whatsoever I have commanded you. You say, well, Lord, there's so many things in here that I don't even understand that are so difficult. And God says, well, dear child, that's right. I have recorded things that are really impossible for you to fully fathom. And God is ultimately incomprehensible by finite minds. And we'll never know Him exhaustively, but thank God through the Holy Spirit and the Word of God we can know Him sufficiently and increasingly in the process of sanctification as we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and His wonderful, wonderful work and His ministry through the Holy Spirit on our behalf from day to day. Now, friends, we have seen already, I trust, that every effort to make people believe fails. And there are enormous movements today among Christians, even born -again Christians, not just nominal Christians, such as dominate, I'm sorry to say, the intelligent design movement, for example, that are using rationalistic methods to reach depraved hearts and minds. And I have to always say to people who ask about this term depravity, depraved hearts and minds, what does that really mean? Well, friends, from God's perspective, and that is the way the whole Bible is written from Genesis to Revelation, from God's perspective, the human mind is so poisoned and distorted through sin that no matter how nice we become through, hopefully, positive environmental influence of families and culture and society, like in our beloved nation of America, we are incapable totally of making ourselves acceptable to a thrice holy God. And that's the whole point of these passages that, frankly, in the Bible seems so shocking to me, at least. Listen to this one, Job 15, verse 14. What is man that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints. And I believe that reference probably is to angelic beings, righteous angels, primarily. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Even the third heaven is contaminated, as we shall see, for a special reason. Almost unbelievable. How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water? Now we had a huge aquarium in our home, huge by personal standards, under a beautiful window where the sun would frequently come in and just inflame those goldfish in there. six And our children just loved watching those goldfish slither through that water, and we often asked ourselves the question, do those fish know that they're wet? What do you think? Well first question, are they wet? Do they know they're wet? Why not? They're immersed in that medium to such an extent they don't even know they're in it. That's the point. And a fish discovers, if we can put it that way, how wet he is when you take him out of the water and he flounders around desperately longing for his normal, natural environment. And that's God's shocking picture, you see, of us and our sin nature. We're so immersed in a sinful world, Satan's world, with people of the world and possessed as we are of a sin nature that we're really not even shocked, we're not even aware of it, we're not even offended by it, we're not even depressed by it. We just sort of drink iniquity like water and it's just a normal way of living. And when God takes us out of that through regeneration, increasingly through sanctification, we become more and more sensitized to what sin really is so that you can read what the apostle Paul said, which I read with amazement. And I think maybe he's really not serious when he said, I am the chief of what? Sinners. You see, this is ridiculous. I mean, you're just playing games with words, sir. Chief of sinners. Why, you're an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and you've been gifted, you know, with prophetic messages and capacities to listen to and communicate the will and mind of God uniquely and you're an apostle. And what do you mean you're the chief of sinners? That is a genuine mark of self -awareness through the Holy Spirit's illumination. Now, of course, friends, we can become totally defeated and depressed if we look at this from just one perspective. We must do like the apostle Paul, while admitting he was the chief of sinners and not worthy to be an apostle and the least of all the saints, et cetera, et cetera, nevertheless, he knew that in Christ, he had infinite power. And that's the perfect balance. Never depending on ourselves or anything in ourselves, but only and totally and exclusively on him. Would you turn with me to Ephesians chapter two? Look at verse one. And you hath he quickened, or made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Dead. And I say, well, Lord, isn't that somewhat of an exaggeration? Keep reading. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world. Now, this is a definitive statement of all people who are unsaved. According to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, and that is disobedient people, among whom also we all had our conversation, our manner of life in times past, in what? Watch it now. In the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. And we're by nature the children of wrath. That is, we are under the wrath of God, apart from Christ, even as others. And you say, well, Lord, that's serious. Well, friends, turn over to Ephesians 4 and look at how the Spirit of God brought to the pen of the Apostle Paul words that even more emphatically clarify what total depravity is. Ephesians chapter 4, let's begin with verse 17. Having this I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk. Now, walk, you understand, means just a manner of life, just your whole course of life, your day -by -day routines. In the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart, who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. You say, well, Lord, that must be a description of radical sinners. Is that a picture of every person who is not born again? And friends, here we have to be careful. Careful. You don't look at a person, a loving person, a lovely person, apparently an honest person of good reputation and start applying verses like this directly to that person. You don't look at a newborn baby and say to the mother, this is a total sinner. Careful in this. But the Bible says drastic things, even about children, that only the blood of Jesus can solve. Psalm 51, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and sin did what? Did my mother conceive me? That doesn't mean she was a specially sinful person or that becoming a mother is a sinful act. It means I have an infinitely deep problem that cannot be traced back to something I did when I was younger, a teenager or something. No, I was sinful. I had a sin nature I inherited from my mother and father who inherited their sin nature from their parents. And by the way, let me just give a side point on this. The reason Jesus had no sin nature is not because Mary was sinless, but because the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and controlled that aspect of her mother's nature. He inherited her nature and through her, you see, a connection with the human race, especially back to David, the king. But he did not inherit her sin nature. By the way, if she had no sin nature, then how could she have been born from a sinless mother who was born from sinless mother? This is total absurdity. You see, a stupendous miracle occurred at the conception of Jesus. He is the only baby ever born sinless in the history of the world or ever will be. You say, sir, these are very disparaging things to say about beautiful babies. Well, friends, that's why, of course, we know that every baby that's conceived is not created by God, but what? Procreated through sinful parents back to Adam who sinned. In Adam, we all sinned, Romans 5 -12. This is a very difficult Bible teaching to fathom. But I believe, as many of us do, that by a special work of God's grace, and this has problems with it, too, that I can't fathom, that unborn babies that are aborted or newborn babies or children earlier than the age of accountability, whatever that might be, are provided for by Christ who says, they behold the face of my father, of their angels in heaven. I mean, there's something about this that is very mysterious. David said about his baby that God killed, the first baby from Bathsheba, you remember. I will go to him. He cannot come to me, but I'll go to him. And that has to mean heaven. I'm going to see my baby. Now, friends, unless we think deeply about this, you see, we're hopeless in terms of being a witness to anybody and leading anybody to the Lord. If we allow for one moment the thought to cross our mind that people aren't quite as bad as the Bible seems to say they are, and therefore I can manipulate them and I can illuminate them by my brilliance and my superior knowledge and understanding, and I can outwit them and outsmart them, and they will have to be, what, converted through me. You say, well, I'd never think that. But there are thousands of Christian leaders, friends, who operate on that basis today. It's called rationalistic apologetics. It's a horrible sounding word, isn't it? But here's what the Bible says, that that mind that you're going to change by better arguments, by intellectual proofs of the truth of the Bible and Christianity and arguments even for wonderful, obvious truths like the bodily resurrection of Jesus, will fall on total dead rock. No response if it is your word and your opinion and your theories and your arguments and your evidences that are being used.
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A highlight from Evolutionary Difficulties (Part 2)
"Join us now on Encounter God's Truth as we consider another lesson in our series on biblical apologetics. Dr. John Whitcomb is presenting part two of a message called Evolutionary Difficulties. We're learning how important it is to be properly related to God and His Word if we're going to be effective witnesses for the Lord. We gain this perspective from one of the New Testament's most important passages on witnessing, 1 Peter chapter 3 verses 15 and 16, and we begin by rehearsing that today. These verses state, This first portion will be a review from last time and reminds us of the imperatives that Peter gave to us which we must practice in order to be effective in sharing our faith with the unbelieving world. Here's Dr. Whitcomb.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"dr john" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"God's truth is enduringly true throughout all the generations. It transcends culture. The church is not being the church of Jesus Christ. Look to the past. Learn from the past. Because the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. China has more than 200 confirmed cases of coronavirus it's called. The entire state of California ordered to stay at home. That's for California has some of the strictest policies leveled against churches. Gavin Newsom's executive order threatens jail time and a thousand dollar a day fine. Government's stopping people from going to church. Dr. Fauci when I went into the White House when I sat in on the task force meetings was a shocking level of gross incompetence. Mortality rate for the virus was 0.2 percent. You know 99.8 percent survival rather than the three or four percent mortality that the people are saying at the time. The culture and the understanding of the people of Grace Church has always been not only do you obey government but you honor government. Thousands of people in the streets but you can't have church. The hypocrisy of letting people riot helped us all understand one thing. This is not what they say it is. By meeting we're testifying the government has no jurisdiction here. I was arrested and driven to a maximum security prison. The government has obviously turned up the heat on churches. Bye daddy. When the churches fall silent the only religion left is the state. We needed to make a biblical statement because we always put ourselves under the authority of the word of God. LA County threatened Pastor John McArthur with jail time and arrest. We were going to be sued. They wanted Grace Church shut down. We wanted to go on the offensive and attack the health order as unconstitutional. This wasn't about health and safety. This was all about control and opposition to religious freedom. As the government gets more corrupt and more corrupt snitches get rewards. Its totalitarian control has to increase. We have to have a mask on and as they shut down any attacks against them this is not about freedom or personal choice. The last thing standing is going to be the church. What a powerful trailer that is beautifully shot. Essentialchurchmovie.com. Dr. McArthur your team deserves a lot of credit. That is beautifully put together. Dr. McArthur I also want you to react to just some of the churches that were in actively involved in the government receiving funding from the NIH and to coordinate with local officials. Were you surprised by how few churches took a stand? Was it what you would have expected? I personally was shocked. I thought more churches would have taken the stand that you did Dr. McArthur. You know Charlie you're asking a very penetrating question and it's a question about the strength of leadership and I have to say that you know we we have an entire culture that has been fed a steady diet of toxic manhood and with the demise of men in our culture and the the weakness of men in our culture that has infected the church. There is a sad lack of courage that you you don't find in in the history of the church in other times of epic challenge against the church. You have you know weak men. I wrote a book I wrote a book called being a dad who leads and a Christian publisher changed the title because they said that title is offensive. Offensive to be a dad who leads. They actually came up with another title that I that I wouldn't mention. So the the weakness of men of men in our culture has shown up in the softness of the church. There's a feminization of evangelicalism. There's a feminization of the church and it shows up in obviously liberal seminaries but it's trickled down into even some of the evangelical seminaries and so you add that to pragmatism the idea that has swept through the church over the last 20 years that the church needs to give the world what the world wants. We need to win them over. We need to be seeker sensitive. We don't want to offend the world. So that compounds the weakness. There's the lack of courage to take a stand biblically just in its in itself and then it's compounded by the fact that churches have decided they they don't want to offend the unconverted world. I did an interview sometime back and one of the lines kind of keeps getting replayed again. The question was do you does it bother you when you offend people and I said no I I exist to offend people. Everything about sin offends God and the understanding of that offense is the pathway to the gospel. So I I just think there's a over overarching cultural weakness among men and it has found its way naturally into the church into the leadership of the church and with that compounded with the fact that you don't want to offend anybody you know you take the line of least resistance and you wind up acting in a cowardly way. That is so deep and unbelievably prescient to what is happening right now. Most people would tap dance around that answer but you're exactly right. The feminization of the American church and the feminization of pastors and I mean I could editorialize Dr. Mcarthur I won't it's even from the aesthetic of pastors that are dressing in strength you know skinny tight jeans I I'll stop there where it's almost as if they have to have a very feeling based presentation and you need a balance of all things God created men and women for a reason. That does that that does present a nice segue doctor to something I want to ask you about and this is on your website uh essentialchurchmovie.com which is doctor it wasn't just covid or the pandemic or the lockdowns but you also had what is now called wokeism or this kind of racial reckoning that they were pushing on the country happening simultaneously and that was also finding itself into sermons and finding itself into churches walk us through that because we almost had a multi-front war in the year 2020 that in many ways we are still fighting. Yeah that's a great connection because the weakness of leadership in the church showed up in buying the woke lies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"dr john" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And my response to that is look, any attack on the church, any effort to shut down the church, we will respond. Somebody said to me how do you choose which battles you fight? And I said we fight all battles, every battle. Every battle against the truth, every battle against the word of God, every battle against the gospel of Jesus Christ, every battle against the church. We fight them all. We're not looking and saying well on a one to ten scale does this reach a four and does that trigger our involvement? More specifically they were saying you know MacArthur ought to wait until there's a big homosexual issue. Homosexuality is a biblical matter and you can wave the bible around on the sin of homosexuality and that would be when to ramp up your fight. And my response to that was it's not like we get to pick the fight we want. We protect the church the best way we can whenever it is attacked on whatever basis. So there was never any wavering in my mind on the fact that any assault against the church of Jesus Christ calls us to immediate action. It's beautifully stated and I just want to reiterate the point. There were so many pastors that were confused and some that were scared. When Dr. MacArthur spoke out it impacted thousands of pastors and thousands of churches and hundreds of thousands of Christians in person and millions of people online. One man speaking clearly and that is because for decades Dr. MacArthur has earned the reputation of being a preeminent biblical scholar and he had the courage to speak out. Very few people acted the way he did during the pandemic and his movie highlights that. Hey everybody Charlie Kirk here and like many of you I'm a busy guy balancing Family Show, Travel and TPUSA. When I needed a mortgage I went to my friends Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian at Sierra Pacific. They were amazing and look I had some complicated stuff don't need to the details. They handled it personally. Call them if you have an aging family member for example that needs some financial relief. Ask them about a reverse mortgage. If you're self-employed and are finding it difficult to qualify because of that they have my 100% full and complete endorsement. Call them and help you prepare. I'm telling you anything mortgage related please call them and not the big woke bags. Go to andrewandtodd.com. That's andrewandtodd.com. Fill out the quick form and they will get back to answers. Call them at 888-888-1172.
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"dr john" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The church never succumbs. The true church of Jesus Christ, the faithful, never succumb to government tyranny. And we understand that the government is ultimately the persecutor of the church. I mean, your neighbor can't kill you and get away with it. The government can't. Your neighbor can't put you in his garage and lock you up if he doesn't like what you say. The government can. So they are the arch persecutor of the church, the ultimate persecutor. And that has led to ever since really the New Testament times, persecution of the church. So we had a lot of history to understand what the enemy of the kingdom, Satan himself and all those who follow his lead, were trying to do. And we knew they were trying to shut down the church. And to be honest, even if this was a black death or the bubonic plague, that wouldn't change anything. In fact, it may even heighten the urgency with which the church would need to stay open. The idea of a virus, it became very apparent to us very soon that they were lying about the effect of the virus. And we knew that as a living lab because our people were meeting. And finally, the LA Health Department had to post on their website that there had never been a COVID outbreak at Grace Community Church, even though we had stayed together and hugged and fellowship with each other and sang hymns and did all the things we weren't supposed to do. So we knew what we needed to do was biblical. And we knew that the idea that we were going to cause some great death curse on our people was not the case. But again, I want to emphasize, even if this had been a genuine plague, history will tell us churches and faithful pastors have survived through those kinds of life. I mean, that's the foundation of Christian discipleship. If any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross. And that's an execution instrument and follow me. So it's never been a question of what do we do? What do we do? The second thing I would say about it is this. We knew what to do because we wanted to be faithful to the mandate and to Christ, the head of the church. But secondly, we also knew that the Lord could use this as a moment in the history of his church, where if there were faithful believers, it could give strength to the weaker folks who were vacillating. And that was part of what we wanted to do, was take a stand and set an example that others could follow. We knew the persecution would come, but we have complete confidence in God's ability to protect his church. Dr. John MacArthur is with us, essentialchurchmovie.com. And that is the most important point you made that, yes, they were lying about the severity. They were lying about it. But even if it was as lethal or even more lethal than they advertised, that is not a reason to shut down the gathering of believers. The ecclesia is more important when times become dangerous, chaotic and uncertain. Dr. John MacArthur is with us, essentialchurchmovie.com. We're going to get into the film in just a second.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Feminization of American Christianity with Dr. John MacArthur
"Destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. I want to kind of take you all back in time. Back in time of 15 days, the slowest spread. Back in time where the country was running in fear. We had to mask ourselves if you were going for a walk outside. I personally know that we reached peak insanity when I saw somebody, I was visiting California on the 405, alone in their car wearing a mask. Because, of course, COVID could come through the AM radio or something. I said, Houston, we have a problem when that was happening. And we saw very rational people act irrationally because there might be this invisible virus that might come to you and harm you or potentially kill you. And almost overnight, there was this separation, a new caste society between essential and of either you're in the essential bucket or the non -essential bucket. Essential was strip clubs, marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, and big retailers, non -essential churches. This was an insult to those of us that were believers and many pastors took it, but one man stood up and offered moral and theological clarity at the most essential time. It's Pastor John MacArthur who joins us now. Pastor, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm thrilled about your new movie, EssentialChurchMovie .com. Please tell us about it and welcome back to the program. Thank you, Charlie. It's really great to see you again, be with you. Yeah, you know, when it became apparent early on in the quote unquote pandemic that the dire predictions of death everywhere were not true, it became obvious to us that we wouldn't kill people by being together as a church. We decided we're going to open the church and that's exactly what we did. And at that point, obviously, we came under the scrutiny of the State of California, the City of Los Angeles, the County Health Department. And to make a long story short, they did everything they could to shut us down, fine us, threaten me with imprisonment, take away our parking lot, post on the health website that there was an epidemic at Grace Church and all kinds of things like that. So in response, we filed a lawsuit against the state and the kindness of the Lord and the reality of the fact led to an amazing victory where the state basically caved in. Really, it happened in 24 hours. We said we're going to bring in the health officials, the leading health officials, and we're going to have a legal deposition, which is now bringing the law to play. If you don't tell the truth, we're going to depose them all and find out what the real facts of COVID are. And within 24 hours, they all caved in across the state, in $3 million legal fees, and they basically ended the case. Nothing ever happened to Grace Church and they literally came up with a permanent injunction that the state can never do that to Grace Community Church again. So it was a significant situation. The outcome, of course, was the goodness of the Lord and the help of the United States Constitution and the issue of freedom of religion. Well, praise God. And so, Dr. MacArthur, I want to pinpoint something that I had from my perspective. You know, we do a lot of work with churches, particularly in Southern California, and many of the churches and pastors that we work with were staying open and fighting tyranny. But I could tell you, doctor, when you wrote on your website, and I know it got publicized and went viral, that Jesus Christ is the head of the church. It went, it gave people the courage and the clarity coming from someone as well published and respected as you. Can you talk a little bit about that? Because there was a fair amount of theological confusion, in particular, people saying, well, Romans 13, you're not allowed to ever open the church. You're not allowed to disobey or defy local government authority. Take us back in time to when you wrote that article, which I found to be so profound and impactful. Hundreds of people sent it to me over the course of a couple days. Dr. MacArthur. Well, look, that was not anything that we came to all of a sudden. I have a sense of history. I know the history of the church. I've studied church history for decades and decades. And the church has always resisted government tyranny.
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Rare Breakthrough COVID Cases Raise Concern
"Sharp uptick in Covid cases in the U. S. For the first time in nearly three months, the United States reported more than 50,000 cases in a day. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr John the Poop on another point of concern breakthrough infection. Dr. Paul Dupre is a vaccine researcher. He says it's crucial for people to get vaccinated. So there's less virus to mutate into a more infectious version, like the Delta variant, which has likely been causing the increased reports of breakthrough cases compared with previous versions of the virus. There's evidence Delta may attach to lung cells more efficiently. And a recent study found the Delta variant produced about 1000 times more virus in the nose than the original strain. It's not just about staying out of hospital and staying out of a coffin. It's about stopping. The likely heard that that virus will change shield in part by the contagious Delta variant. The lion's share of new cases were in a half dozen states. They are Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Nevada. How many D C residents who have been fully
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When Should Teenagers Start Using Skincare?
"With had a lot of requests for these particular topic which is taint. Skincare and i thought there was no better person to have on then a repeat guest again dr john's from northern sydney dermatology and l. Welcome back to the podcast. Thank you for having me girls. I'm excited about this topic. I'm quite passionate about it. Obviously yeah the last time we spoke to you is about pregnancy skin care so if anyone listening hasn't gone listened to that and he's pregnant oh trying to get pregnant. Wants to know what they can and can't use going. Listen to that absurd very informative but tonight we're talking chains skincare so i wanted to stop with. How young is too young. Should leave waiting until concerns like congestions dot to actually happen before we introduced skincare into a chain retain. Look it's absolutely never too early to start teaching your kids about being healthy and that really extensive cost skin health as well as starting early really lies down the foundation for these to calm. The skin has various concerns depending on age and stage and it needs to be adjusted accordingly. Skin kidneys view justed coordinating obviously with time and obviously some protection copy taught to early. The first best time to use sunscreen was yesterday advising delhi retain should be in place for even from the age of ten win. Hormonal changes start to affect the skin. And of course preventions always easier than trading things. Once they will show up while those big problems months. i show up. it's hot. Fix them then to prevent
Texas Titans Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Texas Titans Podcast
"You don't need to make five hundred fifty million right you can get there and it's much more attainable than this constant moving finish line that just makes us anxious agent. Well i can tell you this. This is not false flattery. that please don't take it as that but it out there This it's not like i'm getting rich off. You know my podcast about. Maybe that i can right. But i can tell you this that when i made the decision to start focusing on the things that that not only brought me joy but i could do that. I truly believe that the motto of this show. All of everything i do is to improve always in all ways and it has a selfish endeavor with a very civic byproduct dr john. It's this. I believe that. If i can be the absolute just version of myself. Whatever that is like what. John wooden used to coach his players to if he always thought if i could just coach them to be as close to to reach their close to their potentials possible. We'd win games. I think if. I can coach myself to be as close to my potential possible. Everyone around me. We'll win the fruit of that will spill over and folks listen here when i made this decision here. I am talking to dr john delaney heaven incredibly rich valuable conversation doing something. I absolutely love and you to listener you get the benefit because you get to hear from him through this little platform of a podcast that you know just when you start to focus on what's real that was in my control being able to go wake up and go like michael scott declaring bankruptcy and jason reich going. I will make more money today. No that doesn't yield much but to be able to say you know what i can do though. I can go. Established great relationships pursue things. I love try to get better and better and better at it and boom here. I am visiting with my fellow texan dr john baloney. Who's taking his time. And i know we've run over a little bit and you've got another gig gotta get to and i want to be respectful of that but it works man and i from the bottom of my heart. I don't try to pretend like i'm good at this. Like this is no big deal. I'm transparent this is a huge deal for me. You've been where. I am starting it off trying to get out there and do the right thing and so for you to take the time to come on my show to james doll. Who connected us my my my friend that iron sharpens iron with every other week. Thank.
Texas Titans Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Texas Titans Podcast
"For keeping everything together. It's this no car. This is what. I woke up this morning and wrote as part of my this morning. Journaling and prayer time. This is what i gotta unity. And i am marking through podcast at ten. Am studio to right this. Just keep track of my day. This is what i can control today. That's right this is my attitude. That's it so if it's not on this if it's not my attitude i'm going to worry about. I can't even think about it. I love that you know one of the things that you said there about. 'cause i that guy to that like whatever the discipline is i don't care how i feel i'm going to do the work out that day in being greenfield who you probably are aware and you know okay so been actually is someone that gave me permission to you know not only to say i don't know being person by following him out to meet him one day just to say thank you. Because he's the one that said. Hey you're probably doing more harm than good if you're just grinding it going balls to the wall every single day. You're forty six your findings to heal. You're not training for an ironman. And so jason all if you ask yourself this question for what. Yeah what's it for. What am i right like for what. I'm going to stay another thirty minutes four emails and miss my the first two innings of my son's game. For what yeah. Yeah right. And can i tell you. Can i tell you. I used to like the the we were talking about. Josh and ryan or josh in ryan. We mentioned the minimalist approach before we got on. You know one of the things i talk about is like keeping these headings aspirational goals keeping some clothes. Just in case you happen to get invited by you. Know dr john baloney to head to be be i hop on a boat. You gotta keep that swimsuit in that perfect cuban shirt..
Texas Titans Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Texas Titans Podcast
"One of these you said there. We often feel anxiety where in our stomach well and most people don't realize that we have more neurotransmitters in our gut than we do up top. So that's that signal so you get to this point where you're you ride the. Tell me obviously to doctorates my gosh. Got crazy anxious. But but you've got to be just a killer researcher so tell me how as you started researching for this topic or maybe that was just the first time you organized it in one format like this. Tell the listener. How what. They should understand about anxiety. Okay the alarm goes off. Now what would i do. So the way i would describe it as this way what we do with things i in our culture is this. Imagine you're in your kitchen in your smoke. Alarms going on and you bring over a therapist you bring over a friend that you troughs or some loud mouth in law and or some pastor some. I don't know we got eighteen associate pastors that every church now You bring somebody over and you guys are up on a ladder trying to figure out how to get the batteries. Shut the alarm. Oh and your house is burning down around you and you think that's the problem right so backing out man. If you just said we should feel anxious right. Now everything's chaotic right. Six months ago we had storm in the capital six months before that we had this politics thing this we had oversee. It is bananas time and on top of that. We don't sleep we. We've had a year where we thought we control the lot until suddenly this tiny little bug nobody can see to shut everything down and these are anxious seasons that we're in and so we should feel anxious. That's okay it's when we go about trying to duct tape pillows to that alarm calling that soul that you end up getting in trouble houses still burning right so getting out of that thing. And saying hey. What does that alarm trying to tell me right now
Texas Titans Podcast
Redefining Anxiety with Dr. John Delony
"One of these you said there. We often feel anxiety where in our stomach well and most people don't realize that we have more neurotransmitters in our gut than we do up top. So that's that signal so you get to this point where you're you ride the. Tell me obviously to doctorates my gosh. Got crazy anxious. But but you've got to be just a killer researcher so tell me how as you started researching for this topic or maybe that was just the first time you organized it in one format like this. Tell the listener. How what. They should understand about anxiety. Okay the alarm goes off. Now what would i do. So the way i would describe it as this way what we do with things i in our culture is this. Imagine you're in your kitchen in your smoke. Alarms going on and you bring over a therapist you bring over a friend that you troughs or some loud mouth in law and or some pastor some. I don't know we got eighteen associate pastors that every church now You bring somebody over and you guys are up on a ladder trying to figure out how to get the batteries. Shut the alarm. Oh and your house is burning down around you and you think that's the problem right so backing out man. If you just said we should feel anxious right. Now everything's chaotic right. Six months ago we had storm in the capital six months before that we had this politics thing this we had oversee. It is bananas time and on top of that. We don't sleep we. We've had a year where we thought we control the lot until suddenly this tiny little bug nobody can see to shut everything down and these are anxious seasons that we're in and so we should feel anxious. That's okay it's when we go about trying to duct tape pillows to that alarm calling that soul that you end up getting in trouble houses still burning right so getting out of that thing. And saying hey. What does that alarm trying to tell me right now
A New Direction
"dr john" Discussed on A New Direction
"And we're back here on a new direction with dr john gray and his book beyond mars and venus. It's absolutely its relationship skills for today's complex world Athlete antastic and you know. It's one of those things when you are with john. Dr john gray that what happens is you get so in namur with listening to him. Talk just kinda just wanna shut up. And just because he's so good he really is. I just. I sometimes catch myself what you have a show to do. You can't sit here at his feet and learn from them. Although i remember this giants big of run minutes. I gotta go. You're good. It's so good. And i love your insights. Because you're so insightful. You know one of the things that you talk about in later on. Is this in chapter ten. Which is entitled. She needs to be heard. He needs to be appreciated. And i wanna go into that a little bit deeper. You've kind of talked about it somewhat in terms of the complaints. But i don't think we understand as guys. I don't think we understand what it really means. When says she wants to be heard. And i don't know that women fully understand.
A New Direction
"dr john" Discussed on A New Direction
"Pill everyone and welcome to a new direction. My name is jay is so old. He is yes sir. Yes ma'am dr. john gray author best number one world number one world forever world's number one bestselling author and relationships. Oh yeah dr. John gray is with us beyond mars and venus the book and a we have got a show for you. It's father's day is coming up and we're going to talk a little bit about what dads need. What mom's need to. And how dads and moms and kind of get together also gonna talk about dad at work and mom at work and how that kind of all fits together because work and home life and things have changed in our world and we'll dr. John can help us. Sort it all out because it is convoluted is crazy is unbelievable but you know what he's here to help us simplified down so that you know what we could take relationships come down and then we can take him to work and what we do is we can focus on her work and we could focus on relationships and we can have a happy marriage of all of us all right. Dr johnson do that for us. He's great dr john gray. Listen before we do that. We're gonna do what we do every week right. I'm going to walk you through your growth in the forest of your life right. We're four-part people physical mental emotional and spiritual folks. Let me just say something about growth in those areas because if we here's the thing about growth if we don't stay static okay so if you're not growing your dying it's just it's just a fact you know this to be true. How many of you can. I'm just gonna you know you don't have that can't see your hands right because i know you might be driving in a car and by the way one just take. Am fm twenty four seven because we are now coast to coast in the united states. But let me let me ask you this. Raise your hands. How many of you remember exactly when you took a foreign language in high school. How many member can speak it fluently. Exactly none of us. You know why because we never. We didn't keep growing.
Breaking the Underdog Curse
"dr john" Discussed on Breaking the Underdog Curse
"The green skin and blow out of your clothes and get all matter at will so just in closing you know there might be somebody out there listening. That might feel like they're similar to similar to you. What kind of words of advice would you have. As far as you know people kinda looking inward to seeing if they can maybe a kind of identified their obstacles are and then hopefully help get them over. The longer was in practice on the longer canes wrenching changing because seems be for a long time and get to the point i think for me was was if you're against the This good as it gets or this is just. Maybe i'm not going to be that guy that sees that number can have this bigger breakfast or whatever it might be whatever. Your goals are needs to the point. We think you're nearly your broken araya. Maybe this is just as good as it gets. It's it's you just need help. You just need someone to the right person. The right people to exempt guide you and As i said. I done so much coaching in the best with were pretty much. Everybody in you know you. Just you never know when that breakthrough is going to be but just you need help and you need someone to help you because you know i kept on thinking. I'm figured out by now. Maybe i'm not gonna to. Maybe it kind of got to that point on. I think i might add. Not as she said it out loud. Because i didn't want to admit it but they didn't want to give up by If there's anything. I've got his persistence. And it's it's it's You know if you're if the you know you guys really as way resonated with me on you know if vitality resonates with zone on the field on the right track. But they're still still. You just need to dig in deeper or maybe ask a different question arrest. Reach out This today broken Blue righteous wide open. And you know what i taught. The seating was is nowhere near the ceiling. You know it's Things have just been breaking. Records left right and center so and consistently So it's it's it's the hamrick of came off but if you need if you to do the work and you have to dig deep. But there's there's there's no doubt about that. I think those people that are in practice a long time. And just because i don't think you're ever satisfied or he ever get to a point that you're you know you're done complete there's always something next there's always something extended is just the the the barriers that'd be but over that are holding us back It's just a just keep looking for you know. Who's the person's gonna help you or what's the team is going to change your mindset. It's all it's definitely not it you know But if you keep again keep doing what you what you're currently doing. You're gonna get going to get what you've always done in john. I think you'd said this we see the so much we hear this. All the time is a carpenter's beat themselves up because they go especially if they practice raleigh. Go like can't believe in been in practice. This long am. I haven't got it figured out. And then they can beat themselves up. Did you have those feelings a little bit. Oh you definitely. Yeah and and i. I'd be very hard anyway I think that's just a. That's kinda how i've always been So i that self you know the self-talk. I'm definitely connors myself. No i think that's told can be really kinda debilitating or really you know. I wouldn't talk to anybody. The wet spokesman had sometimes and just being aware of ask and being kind to myself and and yet does take some. Just take some of the pressure off. But i think you know i think we all i think we all can are hard on ourselves. Purely 'cause i i knew deep down i can do better i on. That's what i was. Striving for finding a better was. Because i knew i was setting for the way things were and that didn't sit with me a little but tom. But when you're not getting when you're when you don't know the question to ask that's going to give you the correct answer. It's your stock Terms of managers are programs. Are you guys. it's really gonna help me shine On things that i didn't even know existed are meant aren't my man will thank you so much sharing in again let's We kind of becoming. That's part of the vulnerability talking about some of the challenge your game and and we're super happy to see that you guys are are thriving now so thanks so much for coming on the pleasure. Thank you for all your help This amazing on also have to thank you because you sent us some whiskey. And so i'm on this new Low insulin diet. So i'll have my day so tomorrow will be our our celebration day so i'll be able to try my irish whiskey for the first time tomorrow. Enjoy as much and everyone else. They're out there Hope you a lot out of this Because i think when we start working with people and they get the most results again diving. Tony robbins talks all the time. It's really only about twenty percent is the mechanics and eighty percent of it is mindset and or coming these obstacles so i hope that you got some good stuff out of this podcast matt helps you get to the next level so you can continue to make that shift. Thank you for listening to the podcast. If you've received value from this episode please share this with fellow chiropractor and take some time to rate and review us on itunes or wherever your favorite place is to listen to podcast if you're interested in learning more about our programs and events please visit. Www dot the vitality shift dot com or connect with me on facebook. I would love to hear from him so until next time. Dr don.
Breaking the Underdog Curse
"dr john" Discussed on Breaking the Underdog Curse
"Your host and today Take another trip across the pond in go visit ireland and in our next guests As we've had the pleasure of working with him quite a bit over the last couple years and And we just recently finished doing a ninety day Our mentoring program within one on one and he had some local breakers in the end. I thought it would be really cool to share with some of our listeners because always when people are getting advice or looking for leadership they always are looking for the things to do What a lot of times. We already know all the things to do. But there's something inside it's kinda holding back from doing the things that we know that we should do. Because it's who we are. And and johnny. Osbourne dr john osborne who we've been working with for awhile has had some really cool breakthroughs this year and i thought it would bring him on just kind of said. Hey where's three internal obstacles that you that you really helped to kind of get come to overcome. And maybe this will help spark our listeners. Just to kind of say. Maybe there's something hold in the back. So i don't necessarily need to learn more information or i don't necessarily to get another strategy or the but maybe if if i kinda dig deep inside and and and help kinda unwind some of those interim patterns it will make it might affect our life because it's like a lot of times we think we can segment our life but but really every return around there. We are so I wanna welcome. Welcome john welcome to get back to the podcast. This now you're on solo because you're on with your lovely wife probably about a year and a half ago on the podcast and now and now we get you all by yourself. Thanks to the. And and am looking forward to sharing what i've learned which has lost and you're gonna just prepping for this to hit on the head. I kind of was looking for health and but didn't know what help i needed but i kind of knew. I didn't have a procedure problem or assistance problem or a people problem in terms of my style and in order for the practice to shift or to move or to to to move forward. I knew i was the problem. But he's i knew. I had to change but i didn't. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know canal. Might kind of. I kind of went into this nine today. Broken blind on hoping yourself from burundi. Which would be able to pick up on some things or shed. Some light on things guide me and yet it certainly worked out that way and it's funny because the worst thing is when the when it's you you're like man can't be a procedure would be easier wasn't this you only know what you know and when you're when you're in the middle of his and for so long to practice over twenty years now so it's a it i was beginning to think maybe this is as good as it gets you know and and Well listen 'cause there's always room for bruins a the last ninety days the next program with Move things along shift on which is so. Let's let's just give a little pre frame. 'cause i don't know people have chanceless back to your whole story but just Maybe go back to when you started doing this. Shit the vitality shift and just kind of over some of the key points that you learned from that and then we'll go into those obstacles because when you get like is kind of those are a lot of the tools like learning how to communicate and learn how to measure function improving function and maybe just kind of talk a little bit that russian i and then we'll go into goes obstacles seem long ago now and which is a pretty three or four years am at so i think the i think in my head on very mechanical. Anyway i not and we've get me about me being in my head so i'm go so kind of technique wise on getting you know really trying to figure out when was on the table is unhappy there so to speak so so the vitality shifts in terms of the testing that can spoke to me. I've just you know. Give me more data. Give me more information something to keep me in my ads that's at that just resonates and never have enough information. You know so So i applying then to the person frontier rather than just being thinking of terms. Because i was very much in a pain based mindset A relief mindsets so kinda shift into that kind of By taxi mindset Genyk mindset was challenged Soon the test is wound thing but then actually integrate not in practice and then using that to gauge. Someone's care plan or or guide them along that road recovery or in a kind of vitality. Mind sessions and being proactive with a health and we start challenging time. you know. i think anything. I tend to do in the past. You do it for a bit of the stars and then you start slowly gravitating back to help us do things like the adjustments. But sam so i think i think with the vitality shift Bitel the engine reaches kept us in mindset She was in the program as well as we took a bench or back and forth. And and talk about what we're doing On-track at school. Yeah and so like you said it's funny because sometimes like i i noticed that too sometimes in the past i bought lots of parameters and you got lots of information and then they just kinda feels kinda get bogged down in implementing it so so let's talk a little bit about One of the first obstacles that you You're gonna do probably three here issue or whatever we're going to talk about. The first one was realizing i need help. I'm being oakland today. That's the big one not open to it right. The joke them when you were years ago and we got really well. Let's get it off. You would see the whenever it was booking my so you call me on us and new study brandy. Yeah so so. The i think the first one was. I think the big thing for me. Because we use vox uncut hideout access you everyday and i could just message you so when it came to do new patient and then doing genomic testing she. Jim examination Present that goes to a case to you guys so you get locked onto certain things in a case or something you know you just you log onto it and you can see the wood for the trees through i presenting those things to you and you guys had just a different set of eyes on.
Jim Bohannon
Will We Need COVID-19 Booster Shots?
"Are widely available in the U. S. Many folks want to know if boosters will be needed down the road. One Wisconsin medical expert doesn't rule it out. Medical College of Wisconsin President and CEO Dr John Raymond tells Wisconsin's afternoon news that as of right now we don't need boosters We get from the three vaccines better authorized in the U. S is good. It covers all of the variance of concern right now, But things may change if new variants pop up in the future. I do think that it's possible. Well, maybe even likely that we'll be getting annual boosters. But a lot really depends on what we don't know yet, which is how long that immunity is gonna last. Melissa Barkley,
Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"dr john" Discussed on Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"Right to your and you can follow me at john delaney to where we just a lot of relationship mental health stuff all the weird questions. Are you ready for a rapid fire. Questions let's do it. I told you before we even started this episode. That i'm super excited about this with you. Just because you're weird and you will answer things. we're okay. I'm gonna start really super normal. What is your favorite band. The mold metal band. yeah. I love old middle bans. First thing you do in the morning on a normal morning doubted. I have like this meditation matt and i write a gratitude journal and i have matt yeah. It's like an all holden quilt in this little secret. Kobe made in the basement. Visual this is so amazing. It's so weird. Because i'm so against but it starts with like grown man and of course lew sorta mean by you. Okay my next going gonna be a weird thing about you that no one knows but i feel like we've covered that but just give me a new one thing about you. Must people don't know. I love disney. Movie i love. I love melodramatic thematic songs in movies and cry movies a lot. Great okay something about you. That really gets sheila's nerves like what's like like. What do we have a. I can walk through life. Relatively unaware she says. I leave a trail of john just through and she says she can tell what season i'm in. I'm entering into a writing season or speaking season or up on season by. Just she did this the other night. She dislike things are are you okay. Why always ask them great and then she said in our room it looked. It looked like some. I would have probably shown up. Mean like you should pray. Go get some help. Oh my they start stacking things. So i just leave a trail of john everywhere What is a pet peeve that you have other than any number. One pet peeve on planet earth is disrespectful people kind of people who turn humans into issues that make sense deep. I got this leads us into a new episode. Reiji okay well. Let's lighten up a bit question. What makes you feel balanced. Whatever that means to you. What makes you feel balanced. I'm talking about this more. And more. So i love hearing from people. What does that mean to you man. A season of i am laughing heart in it happens seasonally for me that i'll read something in all. Somebody will post on. His grim. Only use of instagram in the world is for funny internet. Memes. you'll scroll and there'll be a season we'll be like funny and for whatever reason there's a season i will like double over. I can't breathe. I said it's everyone. I know i don't think and usually that's when i'm exercising and writing and taking care of my relationships. I'm doing the things that need hole. So that i can swing off the world and find hilarious funny things. Yeah just a lightness. To i love that. Oh my gosh. This is so fun and now. We're gonna go back to our desks upstairs where that's where we actually work in live but thank you for hanging out. It'll be just like this. I know it was awesome Okay john maloney dot com..
Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"dr john" Discussed on Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"Taco friday. Maybe i'm going to have sony baristas. Yes in zoot. And she's like an idiot. We're going to talk. What are you doing. I love tacos. She likes romantic getaways but schwimmer right past each other. And then i get angry. I get frustrated. I've had this whole thing built up. She's y all you want is a and now we're off to the racist and so now we start every day of our lives with that one question every day pitch today look like because it's as simple as hangs got baseball practice today. My son i instantly think cool. She's going to get them there at home and she instantly thinks you're the baseball guy you're going to figure out how to get home from work and then suddenly it's five thirty. I'm racing home. She's frustrated. I'm frustrated and all we could. We can solve all that at seven. Fifteen that busing would you picture. Look like got practice. You can use back end this over the conversations often. Do you can do anything you with. How do you start your day with what our plans for this weekend. We're going to go on vacation. What is this book. Baked kitchen look like to you It's funny and i just got back from vacation. Speaking of Fort lauderdale for our every year we go on like a few day tripper anniversary and so i told him leading up to the trip. Because i've had a very hard six to eight months here and at home. And all the things. I was like an kobe. Lots and lots of family time altogether all of all five of us and so i just i just want to rest like i just want to rest. I've probably said it one hundred times. I couldn't have been more clear so every day when it's literally like eight. Am and he's like an. I'm asleep. 'cause i'm sleep until ten. Am every day. Because i never gets you this whole life and it became this running. I mean have you had enough sleep. That's like. I was very clear very clear that this is a strip of rest for me. But it's amazing. How when you can just communicate what you need or what you expect like. Oh if we expect different things. Let's fix it on the front end. So you use the words. I need rest and he heard she needs rest. Yeah the pool of rest is. We're gonna go hang out. No kids and your picture of rest is actually. Those curtains are drawn. And my guess is if you had said hey asleep penciled ten or eleven every day my picture this you can do whatever you want. Sweet is awesome and vice versa. It's just having that that that. What's this actually. Look like a picture. We're going to go on a trip. We're gonna hang out with inlaws. We're going to retire someday. We're gonna want to get a dream house..
Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"dr john" Discussed on Christy Wright's Business Boutique
"Out with my good friends. Fellow ramsey personality dr john baloney host of the john baloney show which lets go and tell them a little bit about yourself if my show is by disney rated g. Let's talk about friendship and like about delauney show is rated r. slash weird. You get the weirdest questions. I've ever to go through the filter for it. I let my kids scroll through that menu kids call. They deemed me. They sent me a on the instagram's and it said me and my twelve year old were were laughing at something stops like no no not for your twelve year. Old child friendly weird questions weird situations and you handle them so well. I mean you have an incredible background and being able to counsel people advise people and that's why i wanted to bring you back on the show because you've been on the show before the show because the hardest questions so good for my soul to make it difficult. Here's the thing we're talking about today. Here's the thing we're talking about today. That i want to dig into because this is something that i hear about a lot. It affects relationships. You know a lot about relationships and how to have healthy ones with your spouse but anybody for that matter. Coworkers friendships. whatever conflict conflict. Your favorite things. We love language. It's the chris. My first question is why is it..
Jim Bohannon
Moderna Finds Vaccine Safe and Effective in Kids 12 to 17
"World with the Moderna Covert 19 vaccine found to be 100% effective in kids. 12 to 17 years old. One Wisconsin medical expert says This is an important part of the vaccination puzzle. Single person that gets vaccinated gets us closer to a new normal Medical College of Wisconsin president CEO Dr John Raymond says kids 12 to 15 are about 5% of the population. Kids, 12 and under are about 15% really an important group. Right now They're the individuals that are most likely to get infected with covert 19. Dr. Raymond says he's optimistic that both the Fizer and Moderna vaccines will be fully approved by the FDA. By July. MELISSA BAR CLAY
Donna and Steve
Lindsay Lohan to Return to Acting
"Ready. Lindsay Lohan is making a return to acting guys. The parent trap star has to deal with Netflix for a Christmas romantic comedy or you're gonna check this out. Steve, I know you. I think this is good. I think this is good for her. Yeah, I'm hopeful. In the film, Lindsay Lohan will play the newly and newly engaged but spoiled heiress who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and is taken care of by a lodge owner and hear his daughter, So it's kind of like, what's that? Old movie where the guy falls off the boat stub. Oh, I'm Dr John Know the movie with DeNiro, Kurt Russell and his wife overboard overboard very similar to that type deal. She kind of forgets that she's a millionaire and kind of maybe falls in love with somebody else We shall see right? Sure
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Interview With Yusef Salaam and Ethan Herisse
"Now if you experienced at all there seems to be consensus around this like i want to say michelle. Obama even wrote about it in her book. What a black students who are in route to a medical degree get strongly encouraged by counselors and advisors to not do it. Have you heard of this phenomenon has happened to you. I have not heard this. And i also i haven't experienced it either. No one's discouraged me on that. I'm wondering if that's before they get to college. Possibly if students are like exploring the possibilities of what to go into when you said that the immediate thought that came to mind was what malcolm x. was discouraged to become as a child when they asked them. Hey what do you want to be and when you think about systemic racism oppression that stuff. A lot of it has nothing to do with physical fighting but has everything to do with what happens mentally to get you to accept whatever definition. They are trying to put upon you. What did he originally wanna be. I don't remember exactly. But i think it might have been a lawyer or something like that knowing it would have been a good lawyer. But it's one of those things where you say you. So damn you know when i went to college after i came home from prison bumped into master teachers. My most impactful teacher was a student of dr john. Henry clarke and i think dr john henry clogged is taught. You know the fact that he was professor maradas hunter college in. He had people under him who were not so talk ahead to go to school to get educated. They're getting their education in addition to what they had under him so with regards to master teachers. What i found was that in educational environments that are breeding ground for success. They have specific things right it. A student to teacher ratio is a balance that you find in a lot of private schools but in public schools. You don't find a lot of people fall through the cracks but with the master teachers. They didn't get the opportunity to look at the child and see the child's gifts that they're exhibiting
Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
The Effects of Plant Based 'Meat' on Puberty
"Just looking at the nutrition facts in florida regular burger versus beyond me the impossible burger. You wouldn't necessarily be able to predict the health consequences without further studies but we've had plant based meat alternatives for over a century. Wouldn't wanna canna good eaten pro does it is. After all the modern vegetable meat patent filed by dr john harvey kellogg in eighteen denied of course Products such as tofu in tampa existed in asia for centuries but i think of those as separate foods in their own right as opposed to products intentionally designed to mimic the taste and texture of meat with such a rich history hearkening back to the days of past the protein. Ah you'd think there'd be some studies of consumers and indeed there are for example girls who meet may start their periods six months earlier than girls. Who don't is it just. Because they're eating. Lots of protein and fat evidently not because girls who instead are eating meat analogues like veggie burgers veggie dogs or able to delay menstruation by nine months. of course. it's hard to tease out. How much of that is just from avoiding the meat But compared with girls who eat me just a few times a week those wait meet a few times. A day has significantly early age a first menstruation which also may help provide an explanation for why childhood meat consumption is linked to breast cancer later in life since the earlier. You start your period. The higher your lifetime risk
WBZ Afternoon News
COVID-19 Variants Wreak Havoc in the US
"Massachusetts has more cases of the Brazil Corona virus variant than any other state in the country. The CBC reporting 58 cases of the P one variant. Florida has the second most number of cases 55. The majority of cases reportedly are linked to an outbreak on the Cape 50 cases in Barnstable County. Oh, mon experts, meantime, say they're concerned about what is being called a double mutant covert variant. This is a new very that was first detected in India. Now CNN in Northern California has to 13 mutations one which is on the spiky protein of the virus latches onto so that is concerning that's ABC is Dr John Brown,
Nightline
Will the State of Emergency in Miami Affect the Rest of the US?
"More on the state of emergency in miami and how it may impact you earlier this evening i spoke with. Abc news contributor. Dr john brownstein dr brownstein. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so miami. Beach is imposing a apm curfew through the weekend. We've seen alarming crowd sizes as the us make steady progress with vaccinations. Should we be worried about another surge when all those travelers head back home on one and you can understand. People have been locked down for year lead to get out and we're beyond the point of pandemic fatigue on the other hand. We're seeing many parts of this country including miami with high test positivity rates so you have large gatherings with masking and social distancing that can be really necessary in terms of surge that we might see and so this fast reopening. That's a place really lead to increases in cases but most importantly hospitalizations and deaths mean we have about thirty two percent of adults that have at least one victim now but that still leaves a lot of adults and vulnerable populations that could potentially deal with the worst of this This fires and so you know now's the moment not to let our guard down truly. It's being referred to at the highest levels as a fork in the road. Miami as we know has the highest positivity rate of any metro area. And there's a new strain that we learned about this weekend the brazilian variant which was found a new york. One we know about the effectiveness of vaccines against the new variants right. This p. one very actually caused a major surge in brazil and in fact as many health systems many one hundred percent. Icu capacity in the us. We've seen more than a dozen states already identified p one it's highly transmissible and there have been some reports of reinfection now. It may not be concerning some other various but it still concern as we're still trying to roll out this vaccine the data so far shows that these vaccines work well especially where it counts the most in terms of hospitalizations and deaths but it still puts the pressure on to get this vaccine to as many people as possible right now. How dangerous is it to be in the middle of that kind of crowd even if you have been vaccinated and and we know that this fourth vaccine is coming online from astrazeneca. When can we be assured that most of us are safe and when is our duty to start shipping overseas to happen right. So we're in the homestretch. We think that they'll be enough vaccine by may to start really unionizing the entire adult population and so now we have this fourth thaksin which looks to be just as good as the other three now. Likely the supply that will come in may about fifty million. Vaccines probably won't make a big difference to our population because we just had so much of the other three and so that puts a bit of pressure to think about how we get this vaccine to other countries clearly. This pandemic is a global phenomenon of course and so. We have an urgency. Not just to vaccinate americans but the globe if we really want to bring back this economy bring back travel and really bring back a sense of normalcy again.
Wisconsin's Morning News with Gene Mueller
EU regulator reviews AstraZeneca shot and blood clot links
"Countries temporarily suspending the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine over concerns of blood clots, Despite some experts, saying the Benefits of taking that particular shot away the risks. One Wisconsin doctor says the decision is ultimately about keeping people safe. Medical College of Wisconsin President and CEO Dr John Raymond says most epidemiologists who have looked at the data Express this wedding, including strokes in people who've gotten the vaccine is no higher than you would expect in the population at large, even explains the information that may have alarms. Some of the regulators in the European countries pursue cases were and how Care providers who are under 50, so they might fall in the category of not really being expected to have a clotting problem. Eliza Barclay
Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"Shirt that the doctor was wearing he said lane said that's when he started explaining the blood splatter inside the sleeve the only thing he could think of with being consistent of was with john hamilton if he had beat his wife to death with a blunt instrument apparently he said that the was found the lifting effect of The hand likes. Let's say you have two hands on a murder weapon and you lifted above your head and you hit your wife and you bring it back up and it has blood on it now. He's saying that that secondary blood ran down into the sleeve off the weapon off. The weapon like asked off going into his leaf. Yes like rundown okay off the weapon onto the hand down into this leaf an and this is the thing because this like shocked everybody and this actually got him convicted. What the.
Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"Ass shit mafia. Tonight all comes in isn't nichols hills couldn't left like that of a threat all it's my fancy rich person laugh. I think so gates so apparently this couple was like inseparable and they became even more so after they got married and they stayed inseparable for the next fourteen years on like they did everything together. They are a fricken friends. Susan actually managed. John's abortion clinic. She was there two days a week. And yeah. when want you to break nell susan. I know you managing two days a week. How how are you a mandatory. You're only there two days of that's a real big stretch beyond post very long together as you might guess. The job came with little danger. There were always antiabortion protesters that were like right outside during their thing. Varna. dick horton. Who remember was her ex. Husband sometimes worried for his ex's safety. He knew that she wasn't easily rattled or intimidated. Apparently he said. I don't think there was any question. She wore the pants and if there was another payer she'd go get those two so if anything threats against. The clinic only seemed to bring the hamptons closer together. Steve jamerson john's colleague. He said she was very strongly pro choice and very very outspoken. About it about the right of women. They were kind of a unit in that regards dope. Actually if the asked me relatable fifteen valentine's day together but that when they wednesday morning. John arrived home from the hospital and found a horrific scene. Susan was lying beaten and strangled on their bathroom floor. Her head had been bludgeoned surrounded by a pool of blood. Her face savaged. Almost unrecognizable to neckties added her throat and key frantically calls nine one one. I could be the nine one one operator and you can be john hamilton one. You're you've been nine one one nine nine one one not nice nine one one. I'd be like calm the fuck down. You're not helping anyone squawking about let me put on my nine one one operator voice nine one. What's your emergency please. please sim. Police pleased in an ambulance please. What's the problem. My wife's my wife my wife. I think my wife is dead. Please please sir please please. Are he told the operator trying to sleep muslim. I'm a doctor of drying cpr. Please send somebody quick okay. Is she not breathing. She's not breathing. I don't get a post. Please hurry okay. So you're doing cpr. Yes i'm trying. Yeah i'm going to hang up. So i can continue please all right. We'll be right there. Okay hardly get through that jesus. Christ you're so fricking passionate about that. I i felt. I felt the rage. Get over here. Doing i mean normally. I take lives for a living. I'm trying to say this one. I'm just wait wait wait wait back it up. Maybe that's why he was getting a little like i with you. Blame dr john. I'm just being honest. Oh god fucking face hurts okay. So by the time that emergency workers arrived. It was clear that susan hamilton was stead over the next few hours. Investigators would explore those theories and more as they tried to understand. Just what happened to susan. Hamilton that melamine stay morning worst. Ballantine's ever yep you think oklahoma city investigators theresa sterling and randy scott arrived at the hamilton house. At noon that day they found a disturbing scene. That didn't that didn't suit. Moneyed neighborhood theresa sterling. Says it was. It was a very violent scene. Randy said the ladies lying in floor covered in blood blood all over the floor right away. Detective started asking. Who could be responsible while i would hope that they would start asking and immediately fall or which she attacked by. An owl looks natural to me. I don't know let's write this one on celestine talking around the i did do this during cpr. Yes i am a doctor we do. Cpr for forty five minutes damage to the beat of a rob.
Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on Sirens | A True Crime Podcast
"I don't really think that you just automatically get in and drive it like you're in the you know i got fuck a busy morning. I've got surgery murder searches and then lunch dammit. Nine no cheese just because he might have been seeing a stripper doesn't make him a murderer. Okay let's just. I'm just throwing out there. Yeah and just what does your cheater doesn't make a fucking murder news xactly. It's saying okay. Just your abortion. Doctor doesn't mean you're nerdier stuff. That so i mean i don't know i think we're this is where hate it. Because investigators get tunnel vision. There are just like The husband it and they're not going to look at anything else. That's just it is what it is. That's what they think. No matter what i don't know let's Hate that so that delay apparently opened up. The doctors window of opportunity should year and he's back on the radar so late that valentine's day afternoon they just went ahead and arrested john hamilton for the murder as wide awake. Why look any further. When your job could be this easy i guess. So he was jailed immediately. He was denied any bail. I guess because he just had so much money they thought that he was going to flee the country or some shit and the case landed in hands of west lane. Who was the district attorney. Who would try dr john hamilton for the murder. Dennis murphy says until not valentine day morning there was no anger issues no histories history of this guy hitting the switch or flipping out and west lane says nothing. Let's put it this way..
On Mic Podcast
"dr john" Discussed on On Mic Podcast
"Here to be judged of sorriest that wrong where hits a judge. But we're here to be judged based on how we are as leaders. So was that something. That's an eight are. Is that something that we learned at. My book is gonna tell people how they learn to be. Authentic enable know that they will find that everyone has a bit of that innately. We're talking with professor john to chico about leadership and the moral tenets of leadership. What are they in your estimation and what makes them universal. I guess whether it be judaism christianity muslim. It doesn't really matter what we all have one common denominator of a force out there that somehow someway guides are return being the idea. I don't think you know yes ago. Early days of christianity. We all believe that Well you know if you've got a plenary indulgence. You gave a certain amount of money to your church. You can be dispensed of all your cents. But we all know. That's not true. The said the we create is denying who we are denying. Our inner being denying the fact that in all of us you way defined good You denied finding good and you somehow in the end realize that there is a common good and i think that that common good is something that we have to fight for what we lead. It isn't something that you could just say. Yeah i'm a good person. You have to show what you do every day at this. Pandemic first responders police firefighters medical people that have this skin because all day long. They're treating people who are sick and they ask thought nothing in return. That's authentic leadership. Finally john there are all types of examples of leadership in everyday life. And i'm sure we can learn a whole lot more about how to lead from the people around us. That's my take i'd take. The terror leader's any everywhere but one day emerge is up to them. See what someone walks into a hospital and they know that they have doubled a chance of getting a deadly disease with a firefighter. Goes up opole every single day and then they get into a house. That's flame in flames facing them. And when a police officer goes in and pull someone with the jaws of life and all of these people work together without asking for anything in return those people that do not have a label on them. But what they do is they wear the ardor of humanity. And i think that's what we all have in common. That's the difference between the good and the bad if you look at. The electronics of the universe is only a few positive electrons that overruled the negative ones. At the scientific fact this negative energy is positive energy but as long as few positive ones a merge they speak the whole population. And that's what. I think authenticity is about. It's not a camera. it's not a single act. It's a combination of the global enterprise of people having other be in their world against what while we have is each other. Will your website. John choice to lead dot com. And of course podcast which is found there certainly encouraging and challenging people to not only think about leadership but to put these leadership goals into action. So i congratulate you on keeping up the great work. Thanks for joining us in the podcast. John my pleasure. John thank you. Thanks again to professor john. Chico of curry college in milton massachusetts several books to his credit. A new one coming out this year on authentic leadership to find out more visit his website choice to lead dot com. That's choice to lead dot com. Wanna thank you for listening to thank you. For subscribing and downloading the podcast. We have more and more listeners. Weekly across the globe and don't forget to check out my new website jordan rich dot com. Where you'll find all kinds of connections and links and find out above my new book on air. My fifty year love affair with radio will be back with more interesting conversation next week for you until then be will so you can do take care..