November 7, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of The Impossible Life Podcast, Garrett Unclebach and Nick Surface explore one of the most fascinating intersections of faith and reason — the way science continually confirms truths that God already revealed in His Word.
Science is powerful, but it’s also limited — it’s the discovery of what God has already designed. Garrett and Nick unpack how properly done science—verifiable, demonstrable, and repeatable—often proves what Scripture has said all along about marriage, emotional health, gratitude, purpose, and community.
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Science is powerful, but it’s also limited — it’s the discovery of what God has already designed. Garrett and Nick unpack how properly done science—verifiable, demonstrable, and repeatable—often proves what Scripture has said all along about marriage, emotional health, gratitude, purpose, and community.
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Get the Purpose Playbook by clicking here
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let me tell you what I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's your weakness, it's not your technique.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Don't think you know.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
The Impossible Life Podcast and yes, sitting on a winning lottery.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Second, an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
(00:37):
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
(00:58):
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across a
demand so intense he makes even taking a shower a
competitive event. That's right, friends, The phoemoc Garrett Unklebuck, a
man who is always competing with his greatest nemesis himself.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's fair on words of the joke.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, this is just an accurate statement based on the
fact that my man once decided to take a shower
in and get ready in a single breath hold, because
you're like, I got to get ready quick, and if
I make myself hold my breath, I can do it
even faster.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I've talked about this before. I think it's a great
way to leverage the clock. If you ever hold your
breath for a long period of time and you're like
trying to if you're practicing and you're trying to get
to a certain amount of time on a breath hold,
you'll realize, like, between two minutes and two minutes and
three thirty seconds, between two minutes and thirty seconds, three minutes,
one second feels like a long time, and the speed
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that time moves hasn't changed, but your perception of time
has changed. And so if you need to get ready
really fast, just hold your breath.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Which is you know, I like to think of white
my man, white Goodman. Isn't that convenient for you and
the clock because you're just like, I'm always on the clock, Anyways,
today gee is an episode. I'm actually really pumped about
this one. This is a tools and tactics episode. But
you gave me a great prompt for this and said, hey,
I want to talk about this, and it's science revealing
(02:35):
the truths of God's word. And we're going to give
you five things that you've heard before on here that
science back up, and we're going to show you how
it works. But, like, what I think is so interesting
before we get into this is what people don't really
often think about how credible their source of truth is
and their thinking. But like science has an authority, even
(02:56):
after COVID and all that sort of stuff. I think
there's a difference between first example.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, a lot of people's a lot of people's truth is.
I saw this one time, a lot of people's truth is.
This happened to me. It made me feel a certain way.
They were strong feelings that that is not a good
place to determine what the truth is. Why would you
want to know the truth? Well, I think it comes
back to what you want out of life, and what
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most people want out of life is at the very
least to have a real and predictable experience, right, not
to live some false chaotic experience. That would be the opposite.
If you don't want a false chaotic experience of life,
if you if you want a real one that you
understand where it's going. You have to understand what's the
base code, what's controlling it all. And there is truth.
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There is this understanding that this is the way things are,
this is the way things were made. You may not
even believe that. You may think this is the way
things occurred or whatever, but this is the way things are.
This is the way things were made, this is the
way things are going to be, and this is what
determines how the how few the future will go, how
time will continue to flow. That's what an understanding of
truth is. It grounds reality, It grounds our relationships, it
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grounds our beliefs, It grounds so many things. So most people,
I would say, want to know the truth on some
level or some level or another. So really this is
about where does your truth come from? And then we're
going to overlap science in the Bible, because what my
truth is and what I believe truth is is the Bible.
I believe all truth comes from the Word of God.
And so what is always fascinating to me is where
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I see scientific articles, where I see research that start
it's good science, right, Like, I'm looking at the report
that they've done, I'm looking at the way they've conducted
the science. I'm like, hey, that's quality science, and it's
funny the conclusions that they're coming to. I'm like, yeah, dude,
that's in the Bible. I don't know what you guys
are wasting your time and money on. And I'm being
facetious there. It's good science to confirm these things. But
(04:54):
it's so interesting. I see stuff. It's like, wow, there's
new data that shows and we'll get into I'm here
in a second, there's new data that shows. I'm like, man,
the Bible's been saying that for thousands of years, so yeah,
I hope this is just like a confirmation study and
this isn't like a new occurrence for people.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah. I think it's important to note that because a
lot of times for Bible believing Christians, which I know
most of our audiences, will say, well, the Bible says this,
and that's great because, like you said, that's all we need.
But if you're talking to someone who gives no credibility
or authority to the Bible, it's going to strengthen you
as in the way that you can share your testimony
that you're able to show them well like here's where
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this was actually proven true and actually the Bible has
been saying it. So it's another string to your bow.
And hopefully this just adds further conviction to the truths
that you already hold. And that's really why we wanted
to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, that's what I wanted for this episode. You know,
these are tools and tactics episodes. We talk about tactics
a lot, but tools. For those of you who are
in mindset mastery with us and you understand where and
how we apply tools. Tools is just something that I
give you and you've got to go use it. You
can keep it in your pocket. I got some tools
that are like fancy sophisticated tools. I use them like
(06:03):
once a year, once every other year, right, But I've
got them and it's something I'm keeping in my pocket,
so to speak. And that's what this is. As for
those of you who have a relationship with Christ, this
is a tool that you're like, yep, that's nice. I
already knew that this is great and I'll use this
in my conversations with other people. And for those of
you who don't have a relationship with God but you're searching,
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maybe that's part of the reason you listen to this podcast.
I hope this will be something that opens you up
to the word of God. That's just another drop in
the bucket for you of like, man, maybe there's something
to the Bible.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, And I'll be honest with you, I want to
go so much deeper on people's source of truth. But
I'm going to go ahead and discipline myself.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That is not today's episode.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's not today's episode, but it is something that I
would encourage you out there, you listeners, to dive into
because it'll increase your conviction, which is something we've talked
about recently. So you talked about how you could read
these read something that backs up scripture and you're like, oh,
that's good science. Like what is good science for those
that don't love the scientific method the way you do.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Whenever I talk about beliefs, I always reference this right
definition of beliefs something that you know is true but
can't prove. And then I'll say, and I mean prove
in the scientific sense, what does that mean? Right? It's
based upon the scientific method, and scientific method says that
to be science, for this to be something we can
verify through, it must be verifiable, demonstratable, and repeatable. Verifiable
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means you're not the only one who saw it. Other
people can see it. It's not just your one hand account.
Demonstratable means that it can be clearly shown or proven
through what is often a through science. Basically, you put
a practice together, you put some activities together that are
going to come to a common conclusion that other people
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can do. And that's the repeatable portion that under the
exact same conditions. Right in scientific papers, the researchers will
develop they will there's if you read a research paper,
half the article is then having to type out and
write it about like, hey, here's all of my controls,
here's every specific thing that I did. You're you're basically
giving someone your recipe of how you created these chocolate
(08:08):
chip cookies. So they're saying, if you go fall, if
you follow my recipe to the tea, you will you
will get the same chocolate chocolate chip cookies. You will
come to the same conclusion. So verifiable, demonstratable, and repeatable.
This is what makes good science and there are things
that are true that science is not yet confirmed. For example, right,
(08:30):
there is great web. This is one of my primary
belief is that God is a great plan for my life.
I mean, and everything that the Word of God says
is wrapped up in that. Right. I can't prove that
to you. I have a great deal of evidence. I
have a great deal of evidence, but that truth is
not verifiable, demonstrable, and repeatable. So I know that it
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is true. Is the truth I live by, but it
is not scientific truth. And there's a difference between the two.
You need to understand the difference.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's good.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I think.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know, for people that are going like okay, so verifiable,
demonstratble or repeatable. Where you see this practically, like if
we say, hey, take some wood, pour a bunch of
gas on it, throw a match on it. You could
be five years old and if you do those things
it happens. Where people fall down is because we're not
very always aware of all the details going on. We'll
be like, hey, I know you got this in your life.
(09:21):
What did you do? And someone will be like, oh,
I did this, this and this, And what they don't
realize is there's a bunch of other this is that
they did. But because it wasn't like a controlled scientific experiment,
somebody else will go off and either do what they
think they heard or do some version of it, be like, man,
I got a different result, and it's like, yeah, that's
because you're not approaching this at the same level of control.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
For those of you who got college degrees in the
science realm, you know that we this is like very
much a kindergartner Layman's version of what the scientific method is.
And you had to read all of the bad science
that's occurred through history where but the pre scientific method
research where people came to these conclusions and it's like, bro,
you cooked that study. That's not real. And so that's
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what a lot of people's experiences. It's like, man, this
is a very real experience for me, and it's like
that is not verifiable. Demonstrate real people, It only happened
to you because of this, this and this.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, there were circumstances you were unaware of. And really
what it is an uncovering of principles. And if you
know anything about what we talk about in principles, the
reason we can't predict the future is because we're not
aware of all the principles that play. Only God is that,
and that's how he created an orderly in the universe.
So anyways, here's five things. Let's get into it. Five things.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
These are probably not groundbreaking for anybody, but the point again,
remember what the point of today's episode is. This stuff
encourages me. This all started because I was looking at
a piece of research this week and I was like, bro,
that is straight from the Bible. And so it just
it compelled me to go and find a few others
so we could talk about them here on the episode
(10:50):
today of here's what science is saying. And I think
what science is saying in these articles is great, but
the Bible's been saying it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah. Now, I will say as a my learner is
my number one strength. I actually was upset that we
couldn't spend more time preparing for this episode because I
just wanted to read the whole studies this, Like, I
think this stuff is fascinating. You're saying it's not groundbreaking,
but I think when you take something that like, er,
here's the Bible, Oh, here's the hard numbers that show this,
that to me is really interesting. So very first thing,
as we say, marriage is distinctly good for Benji. And
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what does the Bible say about that?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Bible says, he who finds a wife finds a good
thing and obtains favor from the Lord. It's Proverbs eighteen
twenty two. One, did you joe, there's always able? Yeah, sorry,
one of the Joe like one of the ways that
I learned from scripture. I learned from what it says.
And I also I find it interesting the things that
it doesn't say. Okay, so scripture says he who finds
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a wife finds a good thing. I think it's great
for women to find a husband. Scripture doesn't say it
that way. And I think it's really interesting that this
is also popped up in science. Science talks about how
great it is for mortality rates of men that they
are may married, right, married men versus unmarried men. Married
men are going to live a lot longer. But for
(12:06):
and Nickel jump into a little bit more of the
research here in a second. But this is just what's
so fascinated me about this piece of science. But with women,
it is slightly better mortality rights for women than unmarried women,
but it is not nearly as dramatic for women as
it is for men. And also not this specific piece
of research, but some following articles I was looking at
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talked about how for married versus unmarried women, married versus
unmarried men, against married versus unmarried women, for the men
who were unmarried, they were way more prone to fall
into crime, drug use, or suicide than it was for women.
The married versus unmarried women rates only a slight decline
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in those categories for the unmarried, but for the unmarried
men a dramatic fall off into suicide, crime, and drug use.
And that's because what we know the Bible talks about
is that men have a role to serve and to
honor their families. These are things that the Bible has
been telling us is truth for a long time, and
science is like, hey, I've figured something out. I just
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think that's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, but listen, So here's the stats on that. And basically, men,
for those of you out there, you should never be
needy in your marriage, but you should realize that you
need your wife a lot. So tell your wife today,
I need you, because here's the stats that prove it.
So this is the CDC, which Okay, I know that
they're not exactly held in the highest regard as of late.
(13:33):
But they looked at death rates from twenty ten to
twenty seventeen, and the trend was the same across the
whole thing. I pulled the death rates from twenty seventeen.
It was for everyone over the age of twenty five
the death rates per one hundred thousand based on marital status,
and there was no variation for this based on based
on race or anything like that. But check this out.
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So for those that are widowed, the number of deaths
per one hundred thousand, one thousand, six hundred three fifty seven,
So they were actually the worst. So if you've had
marriage and your partners died, it's actually the high that's
the highest likelihood that you're going to die as well.
Next up was those that were never married at one
four hundred and forty four. This is across men and women.
Next up was divorced at one thousand, three hundred and
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sixty four deaths per one hundred thousand. Now for those
who are married, it's it's only seven hundred and eighty,
meaning that if you were widowed, and even if you
were never married, it's it's almost two to one, Like
for widowed it's more than two to one. For never married,
it's almost two to one. So basically it's almost twice
There was almost twice as many deaths, and it's just like,
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and this was consistent across the trends for men women.
I mean, it was fascinating to kind of unfold the
data in there. Not to mention divorce. You look at
the rate that has, I mean that has a massive
boost up as well. It's just not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And recently a few weeks ago, I commented on Bradley Martin,
who's a big fitness influencer, but not a Christian fitness influencer,
but he's his massive He was like an early social
media guide, just stuck around and has climbed up the
social media influence ladder. Anyways, I commented on one of
his videos of a woman talking about living an incredibly
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selfish life, and because his audience is nowhere near like ours,
I got all kinds of ridiculous. There were plenty of positive, moral,
family based responses, but I got a ton of, you know,
people just mocking me. I don't really get into have
time to sit around and reply to people. I don't
know who they are and not interested in learning from me.
(15:30):
That's casting your pearls before swine. But I wish I
could point them. Hey, if you think I'm just so,
I'm religious not that's fine. But also here's what your
truth says. Your truth says that you're going to die sooner.
Your truth says that you're going to be miserable.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So anyways, yeah, pardon me while I try and get
in your ways. You charge over the truth, but have
a nice truth. Anyways, Okay, next up, ge, And this
is the big E word that I don't think anybody
outside of people who either listen to this podcast or
know you would use is equanimity, which is slow to anger,
actually protects your hearts.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So funny, I talked about we had our we had
our all hands at union this month, and I talked
about equanimity.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh shocker, shock coming from me. So scripture though, scripture
says that in Proverbs fourteen twenty nine. What's so interesting
to me is like a lot of the scripture, a
backup for what we're talking about today is in Proverbs,
which is the book of Wisdom, which is from the
wisest man that ever lived, which Wisdom is what g
how do we do? How do we define wisdom?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, Wisdom is an understanding of God's principles. Wisdom there
helps you understand what's going to happen. When people are
stuck in situations are like what do I do? How's
this going to work out? Wisdom is going to help
lead you to the right answer because wisdom understands God's truth,
and God's truth reveals principles, principles similar to science. Right,
this is the science that God gave us. Principles govern outcomes.
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It helps you understand these are the rules and if
you do that, it's just like the laws of physics,
those are principles. If you do this, this will happen.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. Now, so the scripture in proverse fourteen twenty nine
seys whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, and
it talks about it talks about a few different things
a few different times, and proverbs about anger. But here's
what's so interesting. So like no one would say what
they found is not surprising. So naih dot Gov. They
did a study where they had participants come in and
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they divide them into four groups and they each wrote
down like a very specific memory that's linked to an emotion,
So they had them do anger, sadness, happiness, and then
they just had neutral. So they had people that didn't
write anything down. And then what they did was they
had them read out their experiences over eight minutes, because
that's what it took for them to get all those
things out. So they all read out and the neutral
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obviously didn't do anything. They just sat their freight mins.
And what they did was they measured their blood pressure,
their heart rate, and they actually took like blood blood tests,
like blood samples, and unsurprisingly, what they found was that
with anger, the blood pressure went up, the heart rate
went up, bloodve dilation, we're all affected. Now what's interesting
this was quote unquote make believe, akay, let's go back
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and relive something that's not happening in the moment. The
effects lasted for up to forty minutes after so that's
that's a five to one ratio. So they then extrapolated
that and go the cumulative effect on cardiovascular health over
time could lead to permanent damage. We all know if
your if your heart rate is elevated all the time,
and your blood pressure is high, these are the kind
of things that your doctor goes, hey, you shouldn't do that,
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And it's not exactly rocket science to go like, hey,
getting angry does that. But when you sit there and go,
this wasn't even like nothing even happened. It was like,
let's just relive it, and they and they had those effects.
What do you think is happening in the moment when
you're flying off the handle all the time, it's almost
looks like you're good for you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't think anybody looks at a guy who has
steam coming out of his ears and say, like, man,
what a healthy and productive person. He looks like he's
going to live along Lineman and a great live a
long time and add great value to those around it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No kidding. I have to teach my son that the
Incredible Hulk is not real because like he's like for
a while he was like, I'm gonna get angry. I'm like, dude,
getting angry is weak. It's not anger.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
For anger for a five year old is its maturity.
It helps you, Like yesterday, Grace was like sprinting through
the house looking back as she ran and just ran
full speed into a door. And sometimes anger helps you
learn lessons that you wouldn't have learned otherwise. So it's
okay for children to be angry, it's not okay for
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a grown man to get angry.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, there you go, And let's just put that one
on a replay in your heads, fellows, if you're a
guy that struggles with anger number four, And we've had
doctor Robbie on for this, we've talked about it. But
like gratitude recalibrates the soul and the nervous system, which
is very interesting scripture for this, and I find that
I read this into so many things. But first Essilians
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five eighteen says give thanks in all circumstances. But there's
so many different times whenever we're exhorted by Paul to
like with prayer, through prayer, with thanksgiving in your heart,
like he constantly encourages it. And there was even like
a thank offering in the Old Testament, like God told
them from the beginning you should maketitude and thankfulness part
of who you are.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is the power of scripture. Is like even with
science somewhat today people go, I don't know if I
believe in that. And you know what, maybe it's okay
that you question what the CDC has to say I'll
always find it for whatever people may think of him.
(20:23):
Years ago, I was interviewing Dan Crenshaw and asking him
in front of a who's trying to get a bunch
of really wealthy people to contribute to his campaign. And
I was interviewing Dan Crenshaw and I said, Dan, what
rule does religion have in the life of a political leader?
And he says, here's what you can know about me
is that my truth is based upon the Bible, which
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hasn't changed for thousands of years, and science changes its opinions.
If you are a scientific I forget the term for it,
but people who study the change of science. If you're
someone who's been studying that over the last twenty years,
you've seen science flip flop a dozen times on what
it says it's true because it's so influenced by who,
by people. Okay, the Bible is the truth of the
(21:08):
Word of God. And when you can live a life
based on something like that, that's where you'll actually get
the fruit. Because all science is trying to do is
help us get to greater outcomes. If we know verifiable,
demonstrated war people, if I do these things, this will happen.
What do people want? People want to live longer. Okay,
let's find some science it helps people live longer. Here's
what I'm saying. The Bible has been saying it for
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a lot longer. And this is again, this is the
stuff that fascinates me, just like with like, Nick has
learned a lot of stuff that I had no knowledge of,
like cognitive behavioral therapy. Nobody ever taught that stuff to
me or I'd never read about it. What I have
read is scripture and saying, you know, I'm going to
do this stuff all the way because it actually works.
And the military taught me how important it is to
(21:51):
just apply the basic fundamentals if you want to be great.
And somehow out of that, I've pulled practices that Nick's like,
who taught you that? That comes from CBT? And I'm like,
I don't know, man, this is just what I pulled
out of the Word of God. And so where this scripture? First,
the Salonians five eighteen says give thanks in all circumstances.
That's not a suggestion like live this way if you
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want to get the great fruit out of it. But Nick,
what happens if you decide to be someone who gives
thanks in every circumstance.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean, so this is interesting. So Harvard did
a study of people where the average age was seventy nine.
So that's kind of an interesting one because at this
point they're kind of bringing in what they've got for
life at that point, and they answered questions related to gratitude,
and based on how strongly they agreed with these statements,
they were classified into groups of three groups, the most grateful,
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somewhat grateful, and the least grateful, and the ones in
the top third of gradude. Here's the thing, a lot
of them died in they followed up them for four years,
and the ones that were in the top third of
gratude had a nine percent lower risk of dying over
the following four years than those in the bobble third.
And you may be going on a little nine percent,
not very much, but I want you to think about this.
Whenever people are at seventy nine, like that's the average
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death eight Like, that's the average age for people living
in the United States at the time of recording is
right around seventy nine years old. So when you start
getting to that age, it's like, okay, like you've brought
this practice in if someone said to you, hey, you
can get nine percent longer life for yourself. I think
everybody listening this would be like, yeah, I would hope
that you would want that right to keep running after God.
(23:23):
Not to mention all the times we had doctor Robbie
on and he confirmed this about the effects of gratitude,
So I just think it's one of these things we
talk about all the time and people don't. I feel
like I talk to people and they I don't hear
a lot of gratitude. I'll just and I found it
to be an absolute game changer in science backs that up.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So let's go on. Let's go on to the next one,
which is one of my favorites. This is what this
is what I pull out of every time I'm reading
the word of God. I feel this, I hear this,
I see this, and it's the relation and connection between
having a purpose and a calling. And you like, that's
what I know God created me to do. And if
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I'm going to do what God created me to do,
that's where I know I'm probably going to live longer
then if I wasn't doing what God called me to do.
This is Ephesians two ten. God created you for good workmanship.
It means before you were ever born, before you were
ever conceived, God knew you. God had a plan for you.
And so that's what you should want with your life,
(24:23):
is to follow God's plan for you. Right, That's what
so many people are struggling and wondering on and it
comes from Ecclesiastes three eleven. God placed eternity in the
human heart inside every man and woman. Is this longing?
Is this desire that they know there's more for them?
It's why we're so fascinated by outer space and look
at the stars, because we know there's more. And we're saying,
what's out there? What's in me? Why am i here?
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What's the purpose of my life? God made you for
a purpose, And until you begin to walk that path,
there will be an emptiness and a longing inside of you.
But when you begin to walk the path of purpose,
when you know your creator, then you get this like, man,
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. Whether I lived
for a thousand years or I died tomorrow, I've done
what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah now, and the scripture? Did you get the scripture?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
G on Fijians Yeahjiasians, I created you for good workmanship,
probably one of the top twenty scriptures on this podcast
for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I just want to reinforce that because it's so It's
one of those things like I think intrinsically, I was
kind of thinking about this. I think intrinsically we all
know that having a sense of purpose is like important.
I think we struggle and sometimes we over define purpose
because for us purposes, we need to know every single
thing that's going to happen in our life. But what
they so ScienceDirect dot com pulld data from a health
and retirement study done over eight years. So we got
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the website with ScienceDirect dot com. They didn't do the study,
but what they did was so they interviewed elderly people
across various levels of health levels of a age groups
and ethnicities. So they did this study over eight years.
Now here's what's interesting. Twenty five percent of the people
died during the study. So like this is this is
like not your normal study.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The scientific researchers might have like started thinking like maybe
we should like cease contact with these people.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
No, but here's the methodology. What they did was they
checked in with these people Originally it started in nineteen
ninety two and then they in two thousand, they locked
in on a fifty percent group and they just what
they do is they would check in with them every
two years and they would ask them questions related to purpose. Now,
this is not purpose as you and I would define it.
A lot of our listeners would define it of like,
do you know that God has a great plan for
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your life? But just purpose? Like think about like we
all heard that story of the elderly person who just
you know, they lost their loved one and no one
was visiting them, and they just stopped, they stopped desiring
to live, so they died, right Like we've all heard
that kind of anecdotal story. Well, this is the factual
backup of it. What they found was that they did
this study. They looked at who died, they looked at
how they answered the questions, and this was their takeaway.
(26:48):
I don't I don't want to go into the full
methodology of it, but it said having a higher sense
of purpose appears protective against all cause mortality regardless of jet.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
A flex statement dive against all cause morbid mortality.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Regardless of gender and race or ethnicity. Purpose a potentially
I'm reading this directly from the report purpose a potentially
modifiable factor might be a health asset across diverse populations.
We observed an overall trend across all groups as purpose
levels increased, risk of all cause mortality decreased.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Dude, I want that on a T shirt protected against
all cause mortality.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think you have that tattooed on your soul. Is
Actually you've got the best T shirt of all man,
I love that. That one got me pumped. All right,
let's finish off with one more. Because this is a tool.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
This is a tool. We could talk about these for
a long time, for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So this is something we've said before once again, all
these things. The reason we chose what we found these
is because it's like, man, this was easy to find
and it just backs up what we know to be
true from the Word of God. Community and being together
saves lives. And we have this scripture let us not
neglect to meet together in Hebrews ten, twenty four and
twenty five, and then we have in Ecclesiastes four nine
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through twelve, but encourage one another. Right, It's like you
have these these scriptures of telling people Hey, don't neglect
the meaning of believers. You keep getting together, encourage one another,
like you were never meant to do this on your own.
God said, man cannot be alone. It's not good for
him to be alone. So here's what here's the study
that backs this up that we all know. We've talked
about this before. So in Harvard did this study that's
(28:26):
like the longest longitudinal study ever. It started in nineteen
thirty eight where they followed people around to find out
what makes them happy, what keeps them, what keeps them
you know, going like longevity, all these different factors, and
what they found, like over two thousand Americas from nineteen
thirty eight, is they found that the number one finding
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was that strong social connections maintaining close supportive relationships is
a key predictor of longevity. And it's like we've talked
about this one before. I think it was actually John F.
Kenny ended up being part of this study because they
actually used people from Harvard, and that was the number
one thing that they found was your level of relationships.
Because I remember they looked at people's lives and in
(29:07):
this study, people had like divorces, people had deaths, they
had tragedy. They had triumphs. You know, think about the
level of significance some people at Harvard achieve as far
as from a societal accomplishment factor. So they had all
these different things, and the old that that was the
main takeaway, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There's a sorgy. There's another study. We should talk about
this in another time, but there's another study similar to this,
and I'm just going to loosely reference it because i
don't remember the specific details. But science was looking at
church communities, not as relative of They weren't looking at
the religious aspect. They were just like, hey, you could
(29:46):
not believe any of this stuff, and just go be
in a church with a church community and you'll be
healthier and live longer.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah. I mean there's blue zones as well, where they
look at this sort of stuff as well, and they
find consistent trends. But the point being like, it's not like,
oh now it's true because Harvard did a study. It's
always been true. It's as always mankind is catching up.
And guess what, God's so great and so infinite. We're
not even close to being there with all the knowledge,
but there's still so much for us to discovery.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And so what is very exciting. We're thousands of years
down the road from this being written. What truth is
science yet to confirm that's already in the Bible. What
truth will science never even confirm that's already in the Bible.
And so I hope that this is just maybe for
some of you, this is a tool, This is a
reference you'll come back and encourages you. Maybe you'll share
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it with another person. For those of you that are
listening that may not yet have a relationship with the Lord,
haven't started to learn from the Bible the manifest mind
of the creator of the universe in a form that
we can understand it, Maybe you'll look at scripture through
a different lens and begin to say, I would like
to align my life to this instead of align my
life to the people that are lagging by thousands of years.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
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This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
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impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
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Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
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I had to what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across a
demand so intense he makes even taking a shower a
competitive event. That's right, friends, The phoemoc Garrett Unklebuck, a
man who is always competing with his greatest nemesis himself.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's fair on words of the joke.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, this is just an accurate statement based on the
fact that my man once decided to take a shower
in and get ready in a single breath hold, because
you're like, I got to get ready quick, and if
I make myself hold my breath, I can do it
even faster.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I've talked about this before. I think it's a great
way to leverage the clock. If you ever hold your
breath for a long period of time and you're like
trying to if you're practicing and you're trying to get
to a certain amount of time on a breath hold,
you'll realize, like, between two minutes and two minutes and
three thirty seconds, between two minutes and thirty seconds, three minutes,
one second feels like a long time, and the speed
(02:07):
that time moves hasn't changed, but your perception of time
has changed. And so if you need to get ready
really fast, just hold your breath.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Which is you know, I like to think of white
my man, white Goodman. Isn't that convenient for you and
the clock because you're just like, I'm always on the clock, Anyways,
today gee is an episode. I'm actually really pumped about
this one. This is a tools and tactics episode. But
you gave me a great prompt for this and said, hey,
I want to talk about this, and it's science revealing
(02:35):
the truths of God's word. And we're going to give
you five things that you've heard before on here that
science back up, and we're going to show you how
it works. But, like, what I think is so interesting
before we get into this is what people don't really
often think about how credible their source of truth is
and their thinking. But like science has an authority, even
(02:56):
after COVID and all that sort of stuff. I think
there's a difference between first example.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, a lot of people's a lot of people's truth is.
I saw this one time, a lot of people's truth is.
This happened to me. It made me feel a certain way.
They were strong feelings that that is not a good
place to determine what the truth is. Why would you
want to know the truth? Well, I think it comes
back to what you want out of life, and what
(03:23):
most people want out of life is at the very
least to have a real and predictable experience, right, not
to live some false chaotic experience. That would be the opposite.
If you don't want a false chaotic experience of life,
if you if you want a real one that you
understand where it's going. You have to understand what's the
base code, what's controlling it all. And there is truth.
(03:44):
There is this understanding that this is the way things are,
this is the way things were made. You may not
even believe that. You may think this is the way
things occurred or whatever, but this is the way things are.
This is the way things were made, this is the
way things are going to be, and this is what
determines how the how few the future will go, how
time will continue to flow. That's what an understanding of
truth is. It grounds reality, It grounds our relationships, it
(04:08):
grounds our beliefs, It grounds so many things. So most people,
I would say, want to know the truth on some
level or some level or another. So really this is
about where does your truth come from? And then we're
going to overlap science in the Bible, because what my
truth is and what I believe truth is is the Bible.
I believe all truth comes from the Word of God.
And so what is always fascinating to me is where
(04:31):
I see scientific articles, where I see research that start
it's good science, right, Like, I'm looking at the report
that they've done, I'm looking at the way they've conducted
the science. I'm like, hey, that's quality science, and it's
funny the conclusions that they're coming to. I'm like, yeah, dude,
that's in the Bible. I don't know what you guys
are wasting your time and money on. And I'm being
facetious there. It's good science to confirm these things. But
(04:54):
it's so interesting. I see stuff. It's like, wow, there's
new data that shows and we'll get into I'm here
in a second, there's new data that shows. I'm like, man,
the Bible's been saying that for thousands of years, so yeah,
I hope this is just like a confirmation study and
this isn't like a new occurrence for people.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah. I think it's important to note that because a
lot of times for Bible believing Christians, which I know
most of our audiences, will say, well, the Bible says this,
and that's great because, like you said, that's all we need.
But if you're talking to someone who gives no credibility
or authority to the Bible, it's going to strengthen you
as in the way that you can share your testimony
that you're able to show them well like here's where
(05:32):
this was actually proven true and actually the Bible has
been saying it. So it's another string to your bow.
And hopefully this just adds further conviction to the truths
that you already hold. And that's really why we wanted
to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, that's what I wanted for this episode. You know,
these are tools and tactics episodes. We talk about tactics
a lot, but tools. For those of you who are
in mindset mastery with us and you understand where and
how we apply tools. Tools is just something that I
give you and you've got to go use it. You
can keep it in your pocket. I got some tools
that are like fancy sophisticated tools. I use them like
(06:03):
once a year, once every other year, right, But I've
got them and it's something I'm keeping in my pocket,
so to speak. And that's what this is. As for
those of you who have a relationship with Christ, this
is a tool that you're like, yep, that's nice. I
already knew that this is great and I'll use this
in my conversations with other people. And for those of
you who don't have a relationship with God but you're searching,
(06:23):
maybe that's part of the reason you listen to this podcast.
I hope this will be something that opens you up
to the word of God. That's just another drop in
the bucket for you of like, man, maybe there's something
to the Bible.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, And I'll be honest with you, I want to
go so much deeper on people's source of truth. But
I'm going to go ahead and discipline myself.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That is not today's episode.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's not today's episode, but it is something that I
would encourage you out there, you listeners, to dive into
because it'll increase your conviction, which is something we've talked
about recently. So you talked about how you could read
these read something that backs up scripture and you're like, oh,
that's good science. Like what is good science for those
that don't love the scientific method the way you do.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Whenever I talk about beliefs, I always reference this right
definition of beliefs something that you know is true but
can't prove. And then I'll say, and I mean prove
in the scientific sense, what does that mean? Right? It's
based upon the scientific method, and scientific method says that
to be science, for this to be something we can
verify through, it must be verifiable, demonstratable, and repeatable. Verifiable
(07:25):
means you're not the only one who saw it. Other
people can see it. It's not just your one hand account.
Demonstratable means that it can be clearly shown or proven
through what is often a through science. Basically, you put
a practice together, you put some activities together that are
going to come to a common conclusion that other people
(07:46):
can do. And that's the repeatable portion that under the
exact same conditions. Right in scientific papers, the researchers will
develop they will there's if you read a research paper,
half the article is then having to type out and
write it about like, hey, here's all of my controls,
here's every specific thing that I did. You're you're basically
giving someone your recipe of how you created these chocolate
(08:08):
chip cookies. So they're saying, if you go fall, if
you follow my recipe to the tea, you will you
will get the same chocolate chocolate chip cookies. You will
come to the same conclusion. So verifiable, demonstratable, and repeatable.
This is what makes good science and there are things
that are true that science is not yet confirmed. For example, right,
(08:30):
there is great web. This is one of my primary
belief is that God is a great plan for my life.
I mean, and everything that the Word of God says
is wrapped up in that. Right. I can't prove that
to you. I have a great deal of evidence. I
have a great deal of evidence, but that truth is
not verifiable, demonstrable, and repeatable. So I know that it
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is true. Is the truth I live by, but it
is not scientific truth. And there's a difference between the two.
You need to understand the difference.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's good.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I think.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know, for people that are going like okay, so verifiable,
demonstratble or repeatable. Where you see this practically, like if
we say, hey, take some wood, pour a bunch of
gas on it, throw a match on it. You could
be five years old and if you do those things
it happens. Where people fall down is because we're not
very always aware of all the details going on. We'll
be like, hey, I know you got this in your life.
(09:21):
What did you do? And someone will be like, oh,
I did this, this and this, And what they don't
realize is there's a bunch of other this is that
they did. But because it wasn't like a controlled scientific experiment,
somebody else will go off and either do what they
think they heard or do some version of it, be like, man,
I got a different result, and it's like, yeah, that's
because you're not approaching this at the same level of control.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
For those of you who got college degrees in the
science realm, you know that we this is like very
much a kindergartner Layman's version of what the scientific method is.
And you had to read all of the bad science
that's occurred through history where but the pre scientific method
research where people came to these conclusions and it's like, bro,
you cooked that study. That's not real. And so that's
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what a lot of people's experiences. It's like, man, this
is a very real experience for me, and it's like
that is not verifiable. Demonstrate real people, It only happened
to you because of this, this and this.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, there were circumstances you were unaware of. And really
what it is an uncovering of principles. And if you
know anything about what we talk about in principles, the
reason we can't predict the future is because we're not
aware of all the principles that play. Only God is that,
and that's how he created an orderly in the universe.
So anyways, here's five things. Let's get into it. Five things.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
These are probably not groundbreaking for anybody, but the point again,
remember what the point of today's episode is. This stuff
encourages me. This all started because I was looking at
a piece of research this week and I was like, bro,
that is straight from the Bible. And so it just
it compelled me to go and find a few others
so we could talk about them here on the episode
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today of here's what science is saying. And I think
what science is saying in these articles is great, but
the Bible's been saying it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah. Now, I will say as a my learner is
my number one strength. I actually was upset that we
couldn't spend more time preparing for this episode because I
just wanted to read the whole studies this, Like, I
think this stuff is fascinating. You're saying it's not groundbreaking,
but I think when you take something that like, er,
here's the Bible, Oh, here's the hard numbers that show this,
that to me is really interesting. So very first thing,
as we say, marriage is distinctly good for Benji. And
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what does the Bible say about that?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Bible says, he who finds a wife finds a good
thing and obtains favor from the Lord. It's Proverbs eighteen
twenty two. One, did you joe, there's always able? Yeah, sorry,
one of the Joe like one of the ways that
I learned from scripture. I learned from what it says.
And I also I find it interesting the things that
it doesn't say. Okay, so scripture says he who finds
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a wife finds a good thing. I think it's great
for women to find a husband. Scripture doesn't say it
that way. And I think it's really interesting that this
is also popped up in science. Science talks about how
great it is for mortality rates of men that they
are may married, right, married men versus unmarried men. Married
men are going to live a lot longer. But for
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and Nickel jump into a little bit more of the
research here in a second. But this is just what's
so fascinated me about this piece of science. But with women,
it is slightly better mortality rights for women than unmarried women,
but it is not nearly as dramatic for women as
it is for men. And also not this specific piece
of research, but some following articles I was looking at
(12:29):
talked about how for married versus unmarried women, married versus
unmarried men, against married versus unmarried women, for the men
who were unmarried, they were way more prone to fall
into crime, drug use, or suicide than it was for women.
The married versus unmarried women rates only a slight decline
(12:51):
in those categories for the unmarried, but for the unmarried
men a dramatic fall off into suicide, crime, and drug use.
And that's because what we know the Bible talks about
is that men have a role to serve and to
honor their families. These are things that the Bible has
been telling us is truth for a long time, and
science is like, hey, I've figured something out. I just
(13:11):
think that's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, but listen, So here's the stats on that. And basically, men,
for those of you out there, you should never be
needy in your marriage, but you should realize that you
need your wife a lot. So tell your wife today,
I need you, because here's the stats that prove it.
So this is the CDC, which Okay, I know that
they're not exactly held in the highest regard as of late.
(13:33):
But they looked at death rates from twenty ten to
twenty seventeen, and the trend was the same across the
whole thing. I pulled the death rates from twenty seventeen.
It was for everyone over the age of twenty five
the death rates per one hundred thousand based on marital status,
and there was no variation for this based on based
on race or anything like that. But check this out.
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So for those that are widowed, the number of deaths
per one hundred thousand, one thousand, six hundred three fifty seven,
So they were actually the worst. So if you've had
marriage and your partners died, it's actually the high that's
the highest likelihood that you're going to die as well.
Next up was those that were never married at one
four hundred and forty four. This is across men and women.
Next up was divorced at one thousand, three hundred and
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sixty four deaths per one hundred thousand. Now for those
who are married, it's it's only seven hundred and eighty,
meaning that if you were widowed, and even if you
were never married, it's it's almost two to one, Like
for widowed it's more than two to one. For never married,
it's almost two to one. So basically it's almost twice
There was almost twice as many deaths, and it's just like,
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and this was consistent across the trends for men women.
I mean, it was fascinating to kind of unfold the
data in there. Not to mention divorce. You look at
the rate that has, I mean that has a massive
boost up as well. It's just not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And recently a few weeks ago, I commented on Bradley Martin,
who's a big fitness influencer, but not a Christian fitness influencer,
but he's his massive He was like an early social
media guide, just stuck around and has climbed up the
social media influence ladder. Anyways, I commented on one of
his videos of a woman talking about living an incredibly
(15:09):
selfish life, and because his audience is nowhere near like ours,
I got all kinds of ridiculous. There were plenty of positive, moral,
family based responses, but I got a ton of, you know,
people just mocking me. I don't really get into have
time to sit around and reply to people. I don't
know who they are and not interested in learning from me.
(15:30):
That's casting your pearls before swine. But I wish I
could point them. Hey, if you think I'm just so,
I'm religious not that's fine. But also here's what your
truth says. Your truth says that you're going to die sooner.
Your truth says that you're going to be miserable.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So anyways, yeah, pardon me while I try and get
in your ways. You charge over the truth, but have
a nice truth. Anyways, Okay, next up, ge, And this
is the big E word that I don't think anybody
outside of people who either listen to this podcast or
know you would use is equanimity, which is slow to anger,
actually protects your hearts.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So funny, I talked about we had our we had
our all hands at union this month, and I talked
about equanimity.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh shocker, shock coming from me. So scripture though, scripture
says that in Proverbs fourteen twenty nine. What's so interesting
to me is like a lot of the scripture, a
backup for what we're talking about today is in Proverbs,
which is the book of Wisdom, which is from the
wisest man that ever lived, which Wisdom is what g
how do we do? How do we define wisdom?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, Wisdom is an understanding of God's principles. Wisdom there
helps you understand what's going to happen. When people are
stuck in situations are like what do I do? How's
this going to work out? Wisdom is going to help
lead you to the right answer because wisdom understands God's truth,
and God's truth reveals principles, principles similar to science. Right,
this is the science that God gave us. Principles govern outcomes.
(16:53):
It helps you understand these are the rules and if
you do that, it's just like the laws of physics,
those are principles. If you do this, this will happen.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. Now, so the scripture in proverse fourteen twenty nine
seys whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, and
it talks about it talks about a few different things
a few different times, and proverbs about anger. But here's
what's so interesting. So like no one would say what
they found is not surprising. So naih dot Gov. They
did a study where they had participants come in and
(17:23):
they divide them into four groups and they each wrote
down like a very specific memory that's linked to an emotion,
So they had them do anger, sadness, happiness, and then
they just had neutral. So they had people that didn't
write anything down. And then what they did was they
had them read out their experiences over eight minutes, because
that's what it took for them to get all those
things out. So they all read out and the neutral
(17:44):
obviously didn't do anything. They just sat their freight mins.
And what they did was they measured their blood pressure,
their heart rate, and they actually took like blood blood tests,
like blood samples, and unsurprisingly, what they found was that
with anger, the blood pressure went up, the heart rate
went up, bloodve dilation, we're all affected. Now what's interesting
this was quote unquote make believe, akay, let's go back
(18:05):
and relive something that's not happening in the moment. The
effects lasted for up to forty minutes after so that's
that's a five to one ratio. So they then extrapolated
that and go the cumulative effect on cardiovascular health over
time could lead to permanent damage. We all know if
your if your heart rate is elevated all the time,
and your blood pressure is high, these are the kind
of things that your doctor goes, hey, you shouldn't do that,
(18:27):
And it's not exactly rocket science to go like, hey,
getting angry does that. But when you sit there and go,
this wasn't even like nothing even happened. It was like,
let's just relive it, and they and they had those effects.
What do you think is happening in the moment when
you're flying off the handle all the time, it's almost
looks like you're good for you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't think anybody looks at a guy who has
steam coming out of his ears and say, like, man,
what a healthy and productive person. He looks like he's
going to live along Lineman and a great live a
long time and add great value to those around it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No kidding. I have to teach my son that the
Incredible Hulk is not real because like he's like for
a while he was like, I'm gonna get angry. I'm like, dude,
getting angry is weak. It's not anger.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
For anger for a five year old is its maturity.
It helps you, Like yesterday, Grace was like sprinting through
the house looking back as she ran and just ran
full speed into a door. And sometimes anger helps you
learn lessons that you wouldn't have learned otherwise. So it's
okay for children to be angry, it's not okay for
(19:22):
a grown man to get angry.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, there you go, And let's just put that one
on a replay in your heads, fellows, if you're a
guy that struggles with anger number four, And we've had
doctor Robbie on for this, we've talked about it. But
like gratitude recalibrates the soul and the nervous system, which
is very interesting scripture for this, and I find that
I read this into so many things. But first Essilians
(19:45):
five eighteen says give thanks in all circumstances. But there's
so many different times whenever we're exhorted by Paul to
like with prayer, through prayer, with thanksgiving in your heart,
like he constantly encourages it. And there was even like
a thank offering in the Old Testament, like God told
them from the beginning you should maketitude and thankfulness part
of who you are.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is the power of scripture. Is like even with
science somewhat today people go, I don't know if I
believe in that. And you know what, maybe it's okay
that you question what the CDC has to say I'll
always find it for whatever people may think of him.
(20:23):
Years ago, I was interviewing Dan Crenshaw and asking him
in front of a who's trying to get a bunch
of really wealthy people to contribute to his campaign. And
I was interviewing Dan Crenshaw and I said, Dan, what
rule does religion have in the life of a political leader?
And he says, here's what you can know about me
is that my truth is based upon the Bible, which
(20:44):
hasn't changed for thousands of years, and science changes its opinions.
If you are a scientific I forget the term for it,
but people who study the change of science. If you're
someone who's been studying that over the last twenty years,
you've seen science flip flop a dozen times on what
it says it's true because it's so influenced by who,
by people. Okay, the Bible is the truth of the
(21:08):
Word of God. And when you can live a life
based on something like that, that's where you'll actually get
the fruit. Because all science is trying to do is
help us get to greater outcomes. If we know verifiable,
demonstrated war people, if I do these things, this will happen.
What do people want? People want to live longer. Okay,
let's find some science it helps people live longer. Here's
what I'm saying. The Bible has been saying it for
(21:30):
a lot longer. And this is again, this is the
stuff that fascinates me, just like with like, Nick has
learned a lot of stuff that I had no knowledge of,
like cognitive behavioral therapy. Nobody ever taught that stuff to
me or I'd never read about it. What I have
read is scripture and saying, you know, I'm going to
do this stuff all the way because it actually works.
And the military taught me how important it is to
(21:51):
just apply the basic fundamentals if you want to be great.
And somehow out of that, I've pulled practices that Nick's like,
who taught you that? That comes from CBT? And I'm like,
I don't know, man, this is just what I pulled
out of the Word of God. And so where this scripture? First,
the Salonians five eighteen says give thanks in all circumstances.
That's not a suggestion like live this way if you
(22:13):
want to get the great fruit out of it. But Nick,
what happens if you decide to be someone who gives
thanks in every circumstance.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean, so this is interesting. So Harvard did
a study of people where the average age was seventy nine.
So that's kind of an interesting one because at this
point they're kind of bringing in what they've got for
life at that point, and they answered questions related to gratitude,
and based on how strongly they agreed with these statements,
they were classified into groups of three groups, the most grateful,
(22:41):
somewhat grateful, and the least grateful, and the ones in
the top third of gradude. Here's the thing, a lot
of them died in they followed up them for four years,
and the ones that were in the top third of
gratude had a nine percent lower risk of dying over
the following four years than those in the bobble third.
And you may be going on a little nine percent,
not very much, but I want you to think about this.
Whenever people are at seventy nine, like that's the average
(23:03):
death eight Like, that's the average age for people living
in the United States at the time of recording is
right around seventy nine years old. So when you start
getting to that age, it's like, okay, like you've brought
this practice in if someone said to you, hey, you
can get nine percent longer life for yourself. I think
everybody listening this would be like, yeah, I would hope
that you would want that right to keep running after God.
(23:23):
Not to mention all the times we had doctor Robbie
on and he confirmed this about the effects of gratitude,
So I just think it's one of these things we
talk about all the time and people don't. I feel
like I talk to people and they I don't hear
a lot of gratitude. I'll just and I found it
to be an absolute game changer in science backs that up.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
So let's go on. Let's go on to the next one,
which is one of my favorites. This is what this
is what I pull out of every time I'm reading
the word of God. I feel this, I hear this,
I see this, and it's the relation and connection between
having a purpose and a calling. And you like, that's
what I know God created me to do. And if
(24:03):
I'm going to do what God created me to do,
that's where I know I'm probably going to live longer
then if I wasn't doing what God called me to do.
This is Ephesians two ten. God created you for good workmanship.
It means before you were ever born, before you were
ever conceived, God knew you. God had a plan for you.
And so that's what you should want with your life,
(24:23):
is to follow God's plan for you. Right, That's what
so many people are struggling and wondering on and it
comes from Ecclesiastes three eleven. God placed eternity in the
human heart inside every man and woman. Is this longing?
Is this desire that they know there's more for them?
It's why we're so fascinated by outer space and look
at the stars, because we know there's more. And we're saying,
what's out there? What's in me? Why am i here?
(24:46):
What's the purpose of my life? God made you for
a purpose, And until you begin to walk that path,
there will be an emptiness and a longing inside of you.
But when you begin to walk the path of purpose,
when you know your creator, then you get this like, man,
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. Whether I lived
for a thousand years or I died tomorrow, I've done
what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah now, and the scripture? Did you get the scripture?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
G on Fijians Yeahjiasians, I created you for good workmanship,
probably one of the top twenty scriptures on this podcast
for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I just want to reinforce that because it's so It's
one of those things like I think intrinsically, I was
kind of thinking about this. I think intrinsically we all
know that having a sense of purpose is like important.
I think we struggle and sometimes we over define purpose
because for us purposes, we need to know every single
thing that's going to happen in our life. But what
they so ScienceDirect dot com pulld data from a health
and retirement study done over eight years. So we got
(25:41):
the website with ScienceDirect dot com. They didn't do the study,
but what they did was so they interviewed elderly people
across various levels of health levels of a age groups
and ethnicities. So they did this study over eight years.
Now here's what's interesting. Twenty five percent of the people
died during the study. So like this is this is
like not your normal study.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The scientific researchers might have like started thinking like maybe
we should like cease contact with these people.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
No, but here's the methodology. What they did was they
checked in with these people Originally it started in nineteen
ninety two and then they in two thousand, they locked
in on a fifty percent group and they just what
they do is they would check in with them every
two years and they would ask them questions related to purpose. Now,
this is not purpose as you and I would define it.
A lot of our listeners would define it of like,
do you know that God has a great plan for
(26:27):
your life? But just purpose? Like think about like we
all heard that story of the elderly person who just
you know, they lost their loved one and no one
was visiting them, and they just stopped, they stopped desiring
to live, so they died, right Like we've all heard
that kind of anecdotal story. Well, this is the factual
backup of it. What they found was that they did
this study. They looked at who died, they looked at
how they answered the questions, and this was their takeaway.
(26:48):
I don't I don't want to go into the full
methodology of it, but it said having a higher sense
of purpose appears protective against all cause mortality regardless of jet.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
A flex statement dive against all cause morbid mortality.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Regardless of gender and race or ethnicity. Purpose a potentially
I'm reading this directly from the report purpose a potentially
modifiable factor might be a health asset across diverse populations.
We observed an overall trend across all groups as purpose
levels increased, risk of all cause mortality decreased.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Dude, I want that on a T shirt protected against
all cause mortality.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think you have that tattooed on your soul. Is
Actually you've got the best T shirt of all man,
I love that. That one got me pumped. All right,
let's finish off with one more. Because this is a tool.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
This is a tool. We could talk about these for
a long time, for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So this is something we've said before once again, all
these things. The reason we chose what we found these
is because it's like, man, this was easy to find
and it just backs up what we know to be
true from the Word of God. Community and being together
saves lives. And we have this scripture let us not
neglect to meet together in Hebrews ten, twenty four and
twenty five, and then we have in Ecclesiastes four nine
(28:02):
through twelve, but encourage one another. Right, It's like you
have these these scriptures of telling people Hey, don't neglect
the meaning of believers. You keep getting together, encourage one another,
like you were never meant to do this on your own.
God said, man cannot be alone. It's not good for
him to be alone. So here's what here's the study
that backs this up that we all know. We've talked
about this before. So in Harvard did this study that's
(28:26):
like the longest longitudinal study ever. It started in nineteen
thirty eight where they followed people around to find out
what makes them happy, what keeps them, what keeps them
you know, going like longevity, all these different factors, and
what they found, like over two thousand Americas from nineteen
thirty eight, is they found that the number one finding
(28:46):
was that strong social connections maintaining close supportive relationships is
a key predictor of longevity. And it's like we've talked
about this one before. I think it was actually John F.
Kenny ended up being part of this study because they
actually used people from Harvard, and that was the number
one thing that they found was your level of relationships.
Because I remember they looked at people's lives and in
(29:07):
this study, people had like divorces, people had deaths, they
had tragedy. They had triumphs. You know, think about the
level of significance some people at Harvard achieve as far
as from a societal accomplishment factor. So they had all
these different things, and the old that that was the
main takeaway, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There's a sorgy. There's another study. We should talk about
this in another time, but there's another study similar to this,
and I'm just going to loosely reference it because i
don't remember the specific details. But science was looking at
church communities, not as relative of They weren't looking at
the religious aspect. They were just like, hey, you could
(29:46):
not believe any of this stuff, and just go be
in a church with a church community and you'll be
healthier and live longer.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah. I mean there's blue zones as well, where they
look at this sort of stuff as well, and they
find consistent trends. But the point being like, it's not like,
oh now it's true because Harvard did a study. It's
always been true. It's as always mankind is catching up.
And guess what, God's so great and so infinite. We're
not even close to being there with all the knowledge,
but there's still so much for us to discovery.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And so what is very exciting. We're thousands of years
down the road from this being written. What truth is
science yet to confirm that's already in the Bible. What
truth will science never even confirm that's already in the Bible.
And so I hope that this is just maybe for
some of you, this is a tool, This is a
reference you'll come back and encourages you. Maybe you'll share
(30:31):
it with another person. For those of you that are
listening that may not yet have a relationship with the Lord,
haven't started to learn from the Bible the manifest mind
of the creator of the universe in a form that
we can understand it, Maybe you'll look at scripture through
a different lens and begin to say, I would like
to align my life to this instead of align my
life to the people that are lagging by thousands of years.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
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Speaker 1 (31:01):
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Speaker 3 (31:02):
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Thank you again for listening. Go out there and think
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