Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach wck

and in today's episode we're asking the

question can education cure sin and

before I tell you the story this is

coming from this is a vital question for

our time and age because I think

overwhelmingly our society believes that

education is the key to Leading people

to morality education is the key to

changing people uh but more and more

we're finding that isn't true in this

case this is coming from a New York

Times article written by Charles Piller

who actually has a book coming out on

this topic and it goes like this

Alzheimer's affects over 7 million

Americans it's a devastating and dehab

disease that probably you know someone

who has dealt with or is dealing with

this disease and if that's the case my

heart goes out to you because it can be

a horrific experience for them and for

you uh the leading researcher on

Alzheimer's in fact someone who has

risen to National prominence taking a

number of influential roles has recently

been discovered to be a fraud that's

right the research that made him famous

it turns out key elements of it he

fabricated that's the point of pillar's

book and the point of the article that I

read in fact this researcher generated

over 600 fraudulent studies

600 fraudulent studies that became some

of the leading information for how we

deal with Alzheimer's how we understand

it how we treat it and if you don't

understand how the scientific and

medical community works is that when one

of these studies comes out it becomes

the basis for future studies so it's

like playing Jinga if you take out the

wrong Block in this case say hey these

600 studies are erroneous the whole

Tower comes down because these 600

fraudulent Studies have been cited over

880,000 times in other medical studies

and scholarly Journal articles it's led

to a number of erroneous conclusions

pillar's kind of whole point is we

really don't know what we think we know

about Alzheimer's and we've set

ourselves back a generation of research

because one guy lied constantly about

his research now why did he do that well

the Bible tells us we're all Sinners and

the truth is the more your research gets

publish the more money you make the more

Prestige you get the more positions you

you OB Ain and and pride and greed are

part of what it means to be sinful

people but the point I want to make here

is as you might imagine this researcher

is an educated guy a number of degrees

on the wall you can't do these studies

or obtain this status without

educational criteria being met he is

highly educated but he's still a liar he

is highly educated but greed and pride

are are still a reality that's because

the Bible tells us that all of us fall

short of the glory of God education

doesn't change the human heart status

doesn't mean you don't get greedy or

proud in our country we tend to think

that all of our problems from racism to

Greed from Pride to marital difficulty

can be solv by one more degree one more

book one more piece of information that

if we could just Ed educate everyone the

world would be safe and peaceful and

prosperous especially in areas like

science where all that matters is

chasing the truth except for that isn't

true because people are sinful no matter

what degrees they have education doesn't

change the human heart you take me to a

neighborhood where everyone has a

college degree and I'll show you the

same neighborhood where marriages are

crumbling where bigotry is still still

existent where neighbor love isn't

happening because people live there and

people are sinful this story is a

reminder to us as Christians that this

is why preaching the gospel to people

matters not just because it changes

their Eternal status with God but

because only Jesus can transform Sinners

this is the point that Paul makes in 2

Corinthians 5 it is Jesus who takes us

from unrighteous to righteous it's Jesus

who fulfills the promises of Ezekiel and

Jeremiah for God to take out our Heart

of Stone and to give us a heart of Flesh

it's Jesus who can eat a meal with

zachus and turn a thief and extortionist

into a Kind and Generous neighbor loving

man by sharing with him the reality of

who Jesus is and what he has come to do

look say education matters Medicine

Science these things matter but if we

make them ultimate not only are we

misplacing them but we're not fixing

what is actually ailing ailing us not

only is a world broken but we'll find

Decades of research being flushed down

the toilet because although we

understand the human body we don't

understand the human heart only God does

that's why we need Jesus and that's why

the people around you even if they're

highlevel medical researchers need him

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