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Forward to Zion

Reengineering Genetic Risk

Wes Youngberg

How to Turn Good Genes ON & Bad Genes OFF!

How to Evaluate, Prevent & Reverse Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes Naturally

Natural Ways to Optimize the Immune System

Optimizing Brain Wellness: How to Promote Emotional and Neurologic Healing

The series that I'm doing, this camp meeting, I've entitled Re-engineering Genetic Risk.

Transforming sickness into health, the transforming power of the health message.

There is no more important time for us as Seventh-day Adventists to understand the real purpose of our health message.

It's been unfortunate that in years and decades past, our health message has been either presented but oftentimes perceived in a very legalistic way.

You see, we've often heard about the health message is the what?

But in the past, it's often been used as the right fist of the gospel, where church members or others are telling others, like, right?

Now there are times where we need to Be assertive with each other, as good friends are assertive with each other, because we care about each other.

But if there's no love involved in that process, we actually miss really what the right arm of the gospel is all about, which is really the open hand of Jesus bidding us, do you wish to be healed?

Not just us, but asking us as a church to actually share that message with the world.

People all around the globe are seeking to be healed.

They are seeking answers for all kinds of infirmities.

And in our libraries at home, most of us have book after book after book that can guide people to healing and most importantly, the source of that healing.

White's counsel that there will come a day When the only form of ministry will be what?

Will be medical ministry, health ministry.

The only opportunity that we have to share God's word with other people will be if we're doing it in the context of a health or healing ministry.

That is why every church, every individual in every church needs to understand this great gift.

That's why God gave us the Sabbath, To build relationships through which we help restore emotional, mental, and physical healing.

All these messages that we have been called upon to share with the world.

It's about using this gift to share with the world that's looking for something that's real, not something that's fake.

Let me begin by sharing with you a passage from Desire of Ages, which has been the model that I have personally used in my lifestyle medicine practice.

I first read The Desire of Ages through, from cover to cover, when I was in junior high.

I fell in love with the inspiration of Ellen White by reading that book.

Because she was constantly open to the leading of the Holy Spirit and the angels that were with her guiding her writing process.

And As you look at the chapter in the Desire of Ages, and let me just look it up here.

Chapter 10, page 103, 104, It's a wonderful description of the work of John the Baptist.

Now, what does that immediately bring to mind?

That is an analogy of our work today in these last days.

That is what we have been called to do as John the Baptist was called to prepare the Jewish people for the first coming of Jesus Christ.

We as Seventh-day Adventists have been called to prepare the world for the second coming of Jesus Christ.

And so Chapter 10, the voice in the wilderness.

Do you sometimes feel like your voice is crying out in the wilderness and nobody hears?

Do you have friends, do you have family members who when anything comes up relative to your beliefs, they kind of raise an eyebrow and look the other way.

I think we've all been in that situation.

But This paragraph that I'm about to read to you from page 104 of Desire of Ages really challenged me.

And it gave me an understanding of what needs to happen when we present the health message to other people.

We've heard this morning about the challenges with regards to spiritual formation and the call of peace and safety.

Let's just focus on the touchy feel good aspects of our religion.

But really, the voice in the wilderness wasn't touchy feely, was it?

He saw his people deceived, self-satisfied, and asleep in their sins.

He longed to rouse them to a holier life.

The message that God had given him to bear was designed to startle them from their lethargy.

Okay, so if you have a message to give, we need to understand that our message that we've been given is designed to startle people.

In other words, if you haven't seen anybody startled recently, maybe it's because we're not being assertive enough.

I have to read this frequently because it's easy for us in our society and our culture to shy away from this commission that we were given.

So the message that God had given him to bear was designed to startle them from their lethargy and cause them to tremble because of their great wickedness before the seed of the gospel could find a lodgement, the soil of the heart must be broken up.

If we have any hope to be successful in winning over these souls, we need to understand these principles.

Before they would seek healing from Jesus, they must be awakened to their danger from the wounds of sin.

You might be thinking, how does this relate to the health message?

Well, it has everything to do with the health message.

We're essentially, because the health message is the right arm of the gospel, this passage helps us understand how the health message is to be given out.

So my whole approach in clinical practice and doing seminars is to help people really understand what their risk is.

Not sugarcoat it, not to say, oh, everything's pretty good, don't worry about it.

How would you feel if you had a terminal disease or a near terminal disease and you went to the doctor and the doctor says, ah, I've seen worse, don't worry about it.

Well, wait a minute, what are we gonna do about this?

Oh, don't worry about it, I got a lot sicker patients waiting and why don't you come back in a month or 2?

You'd probably go find a different doctor, wouldn't you?

So the challenge that we have been given here is that we need to speak plainly as to what the risks are.

John McDougall, who's an internal medicine physician, who has a real passion for nutritional medicine, he would actually be invited to a lot of the Seventh-day Adventist camp meetings, even though he wasn't a Seventh Adventist himself.

And he would taunt certain Adventists in meetings, because he was kind of a hardcore guy, about certain things with regards to the diet, things that I wouldn't do.

But his whole focus was, if you tell somebody, if you think, if I just tell them to do this much, because I don't think they're going to really do everything that I know they need to do.

So I'm just going to give them maybe half of what they need to do.

Half of what they need to do is not going to get them a solution.

It's not going to get them to that tipping point to actually achieve healing.

It's in the direction of healing, but it's not healing.

And so if it takes this much to achieve healing, I want to get here to get that tipping point so that I can receive that full integrated gift so healing can take place, whatever it is.

And so he made a big point of that, this was over 20 years ago.

He said that we gotta give it straight or else people will walk away feeling pretty good about themselves because they're following all your recommendations.

All my recommendations are not going to heal anybody if it's not the total package.

We need to give out all the information, but it doesn't end there.

We always have to end with sharing the opportunity of healing, the hope that is available through the message that fully integrates all the steps that are not just beneficial but necessary to accomplish a given goal.

In fact, I'm just going to jump down briefly so I see what's happening here.

So our topic today is actually treating the cause of disease and low quality health.

See, a lot of us go, I'm not sick, why do I need to come to this talk?

Series

Reengineering Genetic Risk

How to Turn Good Genes ON & Bad Genes OFF!

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Breakout Seminars

How to BioHack your Health

42m

Chad Kreuzer Weekend 2022

The Psychology for Health & Healing

57m

How to Have an Effective Health Ministry

45m

Track 1 Seminars

WIN! Wellness Homes of Hope & Health, Part 1

1h 23m

Health Ministry in Church

31m

Kickstarter Series '15-'16

Enhancing Emotional Intelligence

37m

Brain Studies

1h

Mental Health

04 The Power of Relationships

44m

The Renewing of Our Minds

5. From Presumptions to Faith

2h 8m

Lessons from the Great Physician

The Greatest Physician of All Time

1h 6m

Forgive: The Power of Letting Go

38m

Track 1 Seminars

Win! Wellness Homes of Hope & Health, Part 2

1h 2m

Sound Doctrine