Broadcast notes for 1.26.11

The Science of Divine Healing (cont'd)

Review of life of Dr. John G. Lake and a portion of his sermon on "The Science of Healing" given in Chicago in 1920.  Having been a medical student at John Hopkins Medical College, he had the privilege of attending various studies after he left the school.  At one of these, he submitted himself for testing on the functions of the brain when the Scriptures from the Bible were being read, and praises were being said to God.  As the testing equipment registered his brain waves as he did this, the attendants remarked how they had 'never seen anything like it.  You have a wider mental range than anyone we have ever seen.'  Dr. Lake told them:  "Brethren, it is the Holy Ghost."

Just to clarify something here, Dr. Lake wasn't called, 'Dr.' because he was a medical doctor, but because so many people were healed when he prayed for them, people began calling him, "Dr. Lake".

Science has talked about how we only use a very small portion of our 'brain'.  They don't deny that the rest of it is there, it just isn't accessible or being used. 

In observing Dr. Lake's testimony here, I believe that through the supernatural power of God, the Holy Spirit, that he was able to access the inaccessible portions of our 'brain'.

We need to think here about the terms brain/mind.  They are not the same.

What doctors have said is inaccessible is the portion of the mind that was affected by the Fall in Genesis 3.  The portions of the 'brain' that 'fire' when the entire mind is functioning, became more inactive.

God created mankind in His image and one of His attributes is Omniscience:  All-Knowingness.  (By the way, I make up my own words to express what my heart is saying, so if you see some strange things, don't think anything of it!)

God created mankind to fellowship with Him, so He created us with a mind capable of doing that and a brain capable of physically receiving stimulation from the mind's thoughts.

Psa. 8:5 says that He "created man a little lower than Himself".... I realize that most translations say, "a little lower than the angels"....you need to look at the original Hebrew.

I heard someone say one time that 'God lives in 10 dimensions'....probably infinite dimensions really, but for simplicity we will say '10'....and that when He created Adam & Eve, they too lived in 10 dimensions, with access to their full capacities and God, (He would walk with them in the garden in the cool of the day).  At the fall, that continuity of dimensions was fractured, and now we are 'confined' to 4 dimensions:  length, width, height and time....thus our diminished mind/brain capacity.

Now, through the Word of God and the Spirit of God, we can access the other dimensions that we have been separated from by the Fall.  The scientific test that Dr. Lake arranged to take proved at the time that Spirit & Word tears away the limitations of the Fall and we enter the dimensions in which God lives.

Have you thought about the verse:  "God has set eternity in their hearts".....

New International Version (©1984)
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  Ecc. 3:11

God has set eternity in our hearts, yet we cannot perceive it without His Help.  Another reason for the New Birth.

The Woman at the Well:  John 4:14

Jesus told this woman that He would give her 'living' water....a well springing up in her springing up with everlasting life (zoe).  This Zoe opens the other dimensions that were lost in the Fall....something to think about.