OYC 2011: Wellness Reformation

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Oregon Youth for Christ

OYC 2011 Plenary Meetings

Dave Fiedler

It’s OK to Die

Allen Lloyd

Wisdom vs. Rubies, Part 1

Diane Burnett

Lisa Puffer

Health Ministry Q & A

Wisdom vs. Rubies, Part 2

The Ministry of Healing

United Work or the Worst Evil

But last night, we finished part 1 of Wisdom versus Rubies.

And for part 2, we'll be looking at this text in more detail.

I don't know if we have the USB driver in there.

But Revelation 22, verse 4, says, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be, where?

Science first began to understand the importance of the frontal lobe as a result of a man by the name of Phineas Gage.

Possessed an iron will as well as an iron frame, said his boss at the railroad.

In fact, he was well liked by his fellow workers in addition to that.

A lot of people with iron wills and iron frames are not well liked by the people around them.

He was well liked, despite that iron frame.

In fact, he taught his weekly Sunday school class.

The most efficient and capable foreman in our employ, said the large railroad company that had hired him.

And then came that fateful day of, we just had the anniversary of that this week as well.

He kissed his wife and children goodbye and he said he would be home for supper.

This was the area he was working in in Vermont.

Vermont is well known for its mountains and they were blasting away granite to lay this rock.

And the granite that they would blast away, there was a process, a process that actually Phineas had helped to refine and make more efficient.

They would drill a long hole into the rock.

They would fill it partially with explosive powder.

They would carefully place the fuse into the powder.

And this was actually done with a tamping bar's very sharp end.

This tamping bar was actually designed by Phineas Gage.

Very heavy, but yet fine piece of equipment.

On 1 end was very sharp where he would attach the fuse and put it down through that gunpowder.

And on the other end, it was a very blunt end that he would use later on after the sand was used to fill up the hole.

And then the sand plug was tamped, utilizing the blunt end of the tamping bar as he would come down pretty vigorously on this side of things to produce that nice pressure so that the fuse could be lit and people could have time to get away and that portion of the mountain would be blown away.

This process is repeated multiple times that particular day.

And it was about 04:00 in the afternoon, and it's unclear exactly what happened, but either Phineas's helper went to the wrong pile and filled up the entire hole with gunpowder, or Phineas didn't wait until the sand was there.

But we do know that the tamping bar's blunt end came down and contacted the explosive powder and his tamping bar then became a missile going through the eye of Phineas Gage out the top of his head and landing some 20 feet away from the scene.

Amazingly, Phineas survived that accident.

He did have to go to a medical facility where the doctor had to be called out and to stop the bleeding, to sew up the wounds.

And he did develop an infection, but through natural means, the infection was cured.

And within a few weeks, Phineas Gage was back on the job again.

But he was, what his people that he worked with would say, they called people then by their last name often, Gage is no longer Gage.

He's fitful, he's irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity, manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires.

Phineas is like a child who announces he is running away after lunch, then comes up with a new idea over his sandwich.

He's childlike in his intellectual capacities, This is his neurologist describing his behavior here.

Childlike in his intellectual capacities and manifestations, yet has the animal passions of a strong man.

And he would frequently lose his temper in an abrupt, short-lived manner.

He was okay apologizing for his behavior.

Any woman that appeared desirable to him now, he would attempt to go after.

And he no longer was interested in religious things.

In fact, he would ridicule people who went to church.

Many individuals, when they look at how Phineas was described, They say, you know, it's almost like he's a modern man.

In other words, he's fitting the vernacular of what a lot of people are like in today's society, but they haven't had their frontal lobes blown away by tamping bars.

This is actually, if you were to go to the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard University today, you would see Phineas Gage.

By the way, he lost his job as foreman of the railroad crew.

And he ended up joining the circus that traveled around the world.

He used to carry his tamping bar around with him.

With a change in his appearance, He was a circus act.

At first, it was thought he died there, but actually died in San Francisco.

And Harvard requested that his body be exhumed and brought back.

And you would be able to see those detailed personality changes.

And you would also see the skull of Phineas Gage.

And by the way, this proved conclusively that many of the doctors at Harvard thought that this accident actually did not happen in the way it was described.

They doubted the doctor that sewed up the wounds, because they said this man should not have lived from this accident.

When you have head trauma like that, you're a dead man.

But if you notice the skull there, These are for those that are medical people.

If you notice the skull there, that whole portion of the skull was actually blown away.

You can see the hole that the tamping bar came out of there.

And as a result of that, that whole area of the skull lifted up, and there was room for expansion due to the bleeding and the swelling, and so Phineas Gage did not herniate his brain stem.

That's how you die from head trauma, is herniation of the brain stem.

In other words, he had the neurosurgery done by the tamping bar itself to relieve that pressure.

And that's why he was able to live and still talk and walk around, et cetera, was because the bolt had already been applied, so to speak, for those who are in neurosurgery.

And so it proved conclusively that it did, and indeed happened the way it said it did.

But Phineas did lose a large portion of the frontal lobe.

We mentioned last night, scientific studies show the frontal lobe is the seat of spirituality, morality, and the will.

And it should be of significant concern to us as Christians.

We talked about the other lobes of the brain just briefly, the temporal lobe where musical abilities are at.

Memory is very much in the temporal lobe.

By the way, that's why we put some of the most beautiful poetry to music, so you can remember it.

What do we call that poetry that's put to music?

If you get the hymn book out, a lot of people don't realize that's some of the best collection of poetry assembled in the world.

Why is it that we neglect that hymn book today when it has such beautiful words and beautiful music to help us memorize those words?

That's what the temporal lobe and of course this is what the children of Israel would do in regards to learning their scripture.

It was put to music to help enhance that aspect.

The occipital lobe is where architectural ability, our vision, spatial orientation, parietal lobe, calculation, division, subtraction, and speech is there.

Series

OYC 2011 Plenary Meetings

Wisdom vs. Rubies, Part 2

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Lifestyle and the Interpretation of the Bible

35m

Brain Studies

1h

Appetite and the End of Times

41m

Coaching and Cooking Skills

5. Transforming- The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection in Whole Person Health

1h 7m

Jessica Trinh Weekend

The Desire of Ages

39m

Health Evangelism in Action

Reaching Top Mental performance - Lessons from Scripture & Science

1h

Filled by God's Spirit

01 Filled by God’s Spirit

50m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

07 The Altar of Incense

1h 11m

Experience The Power

A Rule Without Exception

53m

Help From Above

1h

The Sanctuary

4. Why the Mess

52m

Diet and Sexuality

58m

Sound Doctrine