Would you consider putting a deadly poison into your body? Would you put arsenic or strychnine in? Suppose that you did a little bit at a time. Not enough to kill you. You took only a microscopic amount of arsenic, a microscopic amount of strychnine into your body and finally the accumulative effect of it kills you. Is that still suicide?

<p>Would you consider putting a deadly poison into your body? Would you put arsenic or strychnine in? Suppose that you did a little bit at a time. Not enough to kill you. You took only a microscopic amount of arsenic, a microscopic amount of strychnine into your body and finally the accumulative effect of it kills you. Is that still suicide?</p>

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Joe Crews

How to Postpone Your Funeral

01 How to Postpone Your Funeral?

02 How to Postpone Your Funeral


Last year, $9 out of every $10 spent for medical needs was spent to cure illness. Only $1 out of $10 was used to prevent illness. Increasing tobacco sales in the face of lung cancer medical reports also point out the amazing fact that Americans wake up too late to postpone their funerals. More in a moment. ♪ Hello, this is Joe Cruz from the Amazing Facts Broadcast.

Facts Which Affect You. Perhaps the subject of most vital interest to every human being is how to postpone one's funeral. Life itself is the sweetest gift that anybody possesses, and the greatest causative factor behind unhappiness is that dreadful toll of sickness and disease. Millions of people live in daily fear of languishing in pain through some possible future disease. In spite of the tremendous advances made in medical research, the world continues to suffer under the weight of much mysterious unexplained illness.

Now how does all this scene of human misery affect the great God of the universe, friends? Believe me, he is not pleased to see his creatures suffer. His plan for us has always been clearly revealed in the Bible. He wants us to be strong and in good health. But mankind has largely ignored the basic rules of taking care of that body which the scriptures laid down long, long ago.

God says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, and how true that is, especially in these days of physical and moral excesses. 1 of the strangest paradoxes of American life is found in this area of health. Though people fear sickness above every other enemy, yet they do almost nothing about taking care of their health until after disease is already struck. In a year's time, 1 out of every dollar spent on medical needs, 95 cents was spent to get well by the average American, and 5 cents was spent on preventive medicine. Now this doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?

But in this field most people don't seem to excel in reason or good sense anyway. It reminds me of a group of tourists in Spain who had gone there to visit 1 of the old historic monasteries. Up on the side of a cliff there was this ancient monastery that they wanted to visit. Well, after they had toured the monastery, they were being lured back down the side of the cliff, and the only way to get up there was in a basket that was pulled up over a pulley by some of the monks. And as they were getting into that basket to be lured back down, they noticed that the rope was rather frayed.

And so they asked the monk in charge there, How often do you change the rope? And the monk said, Oh, we change it every time it breaks, of course. Well, that wasn't much comfort to those who were being lured down in that basket that day. But friends, the care and control of one's body requires self-denial and self-discipline, and these characteristics are not very popular in the soft, materialistic world that we have inherited. Now, perhaps you haven't realized it before, but there is a marvelous relationship between good health and good religion.

A sick, weakened body can't really give full, true service to God and His commandments. But do we realize that human bodies and systems are exactly the same as they have been for thousands of years? Also, the basic laws of our being have been unchanged for generations. Doctors, drugs, and diseases may change drastically as time goes along, but the human machine is essentially the same as when God made it at the very beginning of human history. The laws which govern our health are also permanent and unchanging.

Whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap. That is merely repeating an eternal truth that applies to every age and every people. And you know something, friends, the practices which kept grandpa healthy will doubtless be good for us. And by the way, some of the more simple and natural remedies are still recognized as being the most effective. Fresh air, exercise, plenty of water, lots of sleep and relaxation, They're standard prescriptions of modern physicians just as they were a generation ago.

Unfortunately, under the 20th century scheme of things, people will not slow down to enjoy the benefits of these reliable remedies. Medical doctors also seem to find it easier and faster to just give an injection or a pill instead of utilizing some of those longer treatments more in line with nature's operations. Now, don't misunderstand me, friends. There is certainly a need for every new medical aid to combat disease, but there remains a lingering question that we are depending too much on drug medication instead of the slower but more genuine benefits of natural therapy. If the preventive practices of good living habits could be used against illness, many of the emergency drug medications would never be needed today.

Well I want to deal today with another health and life destroying habit that has recently received worldwide publicity. I have a list of several reasons here why tobacco smoke is wrong in the body. First of all, of course, it contains nicotine, which is 1 of the most deadly poisons known to man. And besides nicotine, there are hundreds of other active poisons also found in the tobacco smoke, believe it or not. And if you want to see what those poisons really look like, just blow the smoke through a white handkerchief and observe the yellowish deposit on that cloth.

Just a half drop of pure nicotine placed on the bare skin of a small rabbit or rat will immobilize the animal and knock it unconscious almost instantly. In every cigarette there are 2 or 3 drops of that pure nicotine. Now not all of it, of course, is absorbed into the body of a person when he smokes that cigarette, because if it were done, that person would probably die immediately. In fact, there is no doubt that he would. But slowly those poisons are assimilated into the system, and slowly the lungs are coated with that fatal tobacco tar.

The narcotic effect soon makes a man an addict so that he craves more and more of the tobacco with its nicotine effect. Now many people, of course, claim that it quiets their jittery nerves. Of course, it is true that narcotic nicotine gives a temporary sedative effect, but so does a tenth of a grain of morphine give that. But the sedative wears off in a little bit, and those jangled, aggravated nerves begin to cry out for more and more, and thus nicotine is poured into the system to overcome the jittery feeling, and the end result is more addiction. Habitual smokers have bodies that are simply saturated with the poisons of tobacco.

You know, 1 cigarette will often cause the blood pressure to rise 10 to 15 points. That's because it contracts the arteries, causing the heart to overwork in pumping the blood through the constricted vessels. And that's why some smokers, in fact, many of them, have yellow discolored fingertips. The tiny blood vessels are so constricted that circulation is not adequate in those extremities to keep them healthy. The Mutual Life Insurance Company checked on the mortality among tobacco users and abstainers, and they found that among the tobacco abstainers there was but 59% of the expected mortality rate.

The total abstainers lived nearly one-third longer than the tobacco users. Now this is pretty good evidence on how to postpone your funeral, I would say, friends. Books could be written about the massive research into the deadly effect of nicotine on the body. Since the Surgeon General's first release on the subject, every new study has documented more supporting information. Nicotine, as I said, is probably the most deadly poison known to man.

Millions have died as a result of the malignant influence of it. By constricting the arteries of the body, that nicotine is forced into those constricted arteries by a heart that is overworked. And of course, lungs have become riddled with carcinoma. Fetuses have been fatally affected. Hardly an organ of the body escapes the insidious effect of that deadly nicotine poison.

Now here is a good question, friends. Is it a sin to use tobacco? There is no sense in denying a patent truth. Anything that defiles the Holy Body sanctuary is a sin. God says He will destroy those who do it.

We dare not call it less than it is. It's a sin, and no Christian should presumptuously shorten his life by introducing it into his body. Few church members would consider taking even small microscopic doses of, let's say, arsenic or strychnine into the body. And yet they take something just as deadly. Slowly the tobacco tars coat the delicate membranes of the lungs until death results.

It is exactly the same when men and women deliberately inhale the toxic fumes of tobacco until the accumulative effect of it causes death. It is suicide on the installment plan. It is morally wrong to take God's property and violate our stewardship and rob Him of His possessions. And what couldn't we say about the waste of money on tobacco? Most smokers spend $50 or more every month for their indulgence.

By retirement time, this would amount to $25, 000, enough to guarantee a fair life income, even if Social security fails. And yet many of those who waste that money on tobacco come to the end of life penniless and dependent on welfare or relatives. What an unspeakable tragedy! No wonder God said, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. We can surely see by now what a serious matter it is to desecrate the physical body and mind which were created for a specific spiritual purpose.

This principle of being accountable to God for the way we take care of our bodies is rooted deeply in the Bible, but millions are becoming health conscious today just to avoid the painful effects of neglecting their bodies. And it is so true that that reason and good judgment alone should provide enough motivation for a balanced diet and exercise program. Well, sometimes logic and even scientific evidence has a tremendous conflict with appetite and also social customs and addiction. Caffeine, for example, is a dramatic illustration of this. There's a growing catalog of research that points to caffeine as a pernicious enemy of good health.

It is a powerful habit-forming drug which has fastened millions in a vice of addiction. Many find it just as hard to give up caffeinated drinks as to stop smoking or drinking. It has been indicted for its adverse effect on the heart, stomach, nerves, even the fetuses of expectant mothers. Merck index of drugs lists quite a variety of caffeine symptoms and indicates that 7 grains of the drug is a medical dose. Now most cola drinks, tea, and coffee contain from 1 and a half to 3 grains.

Many people take far more than a medical dose at every meal, and the effect is to stimulate the cells of the body to operate on a higher level of activity than God ever intended. 1 physician described it this way, he said, We in America have become a nation of tea and coffee drunkards. Well, the big question is how to get rid of the habit. Now, friends, there is only 1 way to do it. Just stop.

You can't taper off and tease yourself with the taste of something so destructive and poisonous as this. Throw it away. Make a resolution of the will never to touch it again and then ask God to strengthen you to overcome it right now. You can gain the victory if you desire to have it. Now, I know I'm getting a bit hard on you, but friends, these are the things that are actually scientifically, demonstrably harmful to the body.

And we need to get rid of everything that contains caffeine and nicotine, because those are actually poisonous to the body. Tea, in addition to its content of caffeine, has another harmful constituent, tannic acid. The New York Life Extension Institute reveals that out of 16, 562 men examined by the Institute, the excessive use of alcohol was considered to be responsible for 7% of the physical impairment, while coffee and tea were assigned as a cause of 40% of these ailments. So that's interesting, isn't it? While our time is about gone today, friends, let me leave you this text in 1 John 3, verses 2 and 3, Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." Well in closing today, Let me tell you about the information folder I entitled, You Wouldn't Do This. It covers the material of today's message and portrays most graphically how multitudes are actually digging their graves with their teeth. Now if you would like to have the material contained in the broadcast today and also in our last broadcast, ask for the little book, Death in the Kitchen, Death in the Kitchen, and that will cover everything that was presented in this special series of radio messages on good health and diet. And these things are more important than we can ever imagine. So there are 2 things then to write for today.

You can write for Folder I, which contains the principles, and then you can write for the little book, Death in the Kitchen. And now this is Joe Cruz saying goodbye for today. You

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