It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? From the CBS television news staff, Larry Lassur and Don Hollenbeck. Our distinguished guest for this evening is Colonel Irene O. Galloway, director of the Women's Army Corps. This week we celebrate Armed Forces Day. Three times in the past 10 years, we've been forced to wonder whether our troops have been forced to fight on foreign soil. In fact, in the past 10 years, the threat of world war has never been remote. If such a disaster should occur, of course, women would be needed as much as men. And Colonel Galloway, you're the director of the Women's Army Corps. I ask for a start. Just how many women are under your command now? Well, Larry, right now we have 8,500 women. However, you remember during World War II, we had about, oh, I would say approximately 100,000 women serving at one time. We had 150,000 women enlisted in the Corps during World War II. See, so they're just about 10,000, 12,000 now, you see? That's right. How many of those are overseas, Colonel? We have about 30% overseas serving in Okinawa, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy. Well, Colonel Galloway, before I ask why women joined the Army, may I ask you why you joined up? Well, Larry, it was in June of 1942, it was coming from St. Patrick's Cathedral. A friend and I were discussing the article we had just read in the New York Times that morning, the possibility of women joining service. So the next Monday morning we found ourselves down at Whitehall trying to enlist. Just like that.  I had a brother serving on the Pacific and I felt I too should do something. Well, may I ask, Colonel Galloway, do you find now that there are objections from parents about their girls going into the Army? Not too much. There always is, I would say, some reluctant on the part of the parents to see a young daughter leave home, whether it's to go to college, into business, or into service. However, any girl under 21 years of age must get parental consent to come into the service. Well, at what age do you accept people in the Women's Army Corps? 18 to 35 years of age. However, we still have quite a few women in service from World War II. And we have one woman who just recently had her 60th birthday. How's your rate of re-enlistment, Colonel? Quite high. And I was very pleased finding that some of the women who felt that they perhaps would like to have a prayer in civilian life have now returned to the service after being in civilian life for two or three years. They find they have better opportunities, that is. They feel so. They have vanishes, travel, education. In fact, I feel the opportunities for women in service are unlimited. It depends upon the individual women. Colonel, may I ask you this question? What actually do you do in the Women's Army Corps now to make the career of being a woman in the Army attractive to women? Do you, if I may say so, do something about their uniforms, about their hats? Well, we don't feel we have to make the career attractive. Actually, if a woman is in service, I feel that she recognizes it is an attractive career. Yes, but the point is to get them to the point of getting over the hurdle and getting into the service. Isn't that the case? Well, Larry, what we try to do is stress the opportunities of furthering our education, the opportunity to travel. Not only that a woman can have a satisfying career, but in addition, she can contribute service to her country. You've smartened up that uniform since World War II. Well, yes, we have. It's a very attractive uniform. Something has been done about that and also the hat that you wore when you came in here. Well, I tell you what we've done, Larry. We've gotten rid of the tie, such as the one you're wearing right now. We feel more comfortable with the small collar and not having the tie on the high shirt, such as you wore. I see. We learned by degrees what I would say that what type of uniform was more comfortable. I think you will recall we started with the hobby hat. Yes, I remember that. And hat. It's much softer, more feminine looking hat. And you still have prominent designers doing these things? Hattie Carnegie designed our present uniform, yes. Well, in other words, it is possible for a woman to be in service, to be military and ship shape. May use an old expression as well as feminine. Well, I think so. Couldn't you say so? I think you have proved that. What are a woman's chances for advancement and commission say as compared to a man's in the army? Just as good or not so good or better? There again, it depends upon the individual. Any enlisted woman, if she qualifies, can become an officer or a college graduate, can apply for a reserve commission and concurrent call to active duty. What do you find women like to do best in the army? Some prefer the medical field. X-ray, work, laboratory, work. Others prefer communications. Would it be in that order of those two the most popular? I was going to say, what do they do best? That's what they like best. What do they do best though? Depends upon their aptitude. What do you think women are best suited for in the army though? Well, I wouldn't restrict that to the armillary. It all depends upon the individual again. And I think that more and more we realize that when we speak of man power, we do include woman power because there is a critical shortage. In other words, life of women in the army is no different from the opportunities also that exist or the things they can do in civilian life. No, I would say not. And I think that the past few years have shown that women are becoming more and more prominent in government. Well, I'll turn the counter away and ask you this question, speaking about women becoming prominent in government. Now, I don't want to make any comment about women in government, but does the army actually change women, would you say? Do you think it hardens them? Does it make them more masculine? You're self excused, of course. No, I would say that first of all, I would say that a young woman character is developed before she enters the army. Now, I mean a young woman's character is already formed when she enters the service. Her character is developed. We encourage her to develop and become self-reliant. And we try all we as much as possible by example and precept to make her an outstanding citizen. Make her recognize her citizenship responsibilities, her responsibilities as an individual and as a woman. What is the presence of women in the army due to the masculine side of the army? Yes, I'd like to ask you that. Does it have an effect on the morale of the men? Are women possibly troublemakers or do they make the men feel as though they're in a more home-like atmosphere? Well, being a woman, I would say that we have a stabilizing influence. Stabilizing such as, can you be more specific? Well, at the present time, I don't think that, well, I would say men accept women in service. We aren't new. Ten or twelve years ago was a little different. But now they realize that women do have a place in service and we work side-by-side with the men. Pretty much as there would be in any other field. Colonel Galloway, if I may bring up a rather touchy subject in some quarters. I was in Korea last year when our army was in combat over there and I know you're a veteran of World War II. One of the things that amazed me most was the new sight of our army and the absence of segregation in it. In World War II, as you remember, the army was almost completely segregated up until the last battles, the battles of the Bulge and the Ardennes. But in Korea now, the army is completely non-segregated and I just wondered if your women's army corps followed the same pattern as our modern army now. Is there segregation in the women's army corps? When you speak of non-segregation in Korea, Larry, I hate to correct you, but I have to. There is no segregation in the army. That's exactly what I was referring to. That's right. But what about the women's army corps? There is no segregation. Actually, we don't even think of it anymore. You follow exactly the same patterns and you mix colored wax with white army troops in various military installations? All of our women live in the same billets, work side by side. Have you found this to be a successful method? Very satisfactory. We're proud of all of our women in service. Incidentally, I was in Korea too last year and visited the Korean army. We have a counterpart in the Korean army. You mean American women in the Korean army? No, the Korean army has a whack counterpart. Oh, from the things that they've picked up you. Well, may I ask you, though, finally, Colonel Galloway, what would you say? I think all women are interested in Korea. What opportunities actually exist for women in the army? Are they equal to those of men? Can they get married? Would you say? They not only can, they do. But would you say that the opportunities to rise in the army are as good for women as they are for men? Every bit is good. Every opportunity. We are in the same career field. Actually, the women in service serve in 19 of the 32 career fields. In case of outright war, we serve in 27 of the 32 career fields. We serve in any type of duty that is culturally acceptable to the American people. Of course, we do not serve in combat. 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Hey man, so here we are in John chapter number one, so we're going to start really in verse number 15 tonight in John chapter number one. We're going to look, last week we looked at who Jesus was. We looked at who Jesus was in the first 14 verses of John chapter one. Tonight we're going to look at who John, the Baptist is and what he was doing here. In verse number six the Bible says it kind of tells us who he was and why he was there, but we're going to look at specifically what he was doing and why he actually meets Jesus in this chapter as well. Look at verse number six, the Bible says there was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light. We talked about Jesus being the light last week. It says that was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. But no, I'm sorry, verse number eight. He was not that light saying John was not the one. He was just there. He was just there. He was sent to bear witness. He was sent to come in and kind of declare the coming light is what John was there for, but it's important to know that John was sent from God in verse number six. We're going to start in verse number 15 where the Bible says John bear witness of him and cried saying, this was he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me is preferred before me for, and then he says something that he says twice. He says, you know, I have this underline in my Bible. He says, for he was before me. And after we look at the second time he says that, I'm going to show you what he's talking about when he says for he was before me. And look at verse 16. And his fullness have all we received and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. So he's already declaring that this person Jesus is the Messiah. No man has seen God at any time the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. He out declared him. And this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou? So the next few verses, John is out in the wilderness. He's preaching this. He's preaching Jesus Christ. We just saw that. What was the message that John was preaching before he started doing the actions that he was doing? He was preaching Jesus Christ in the wilderness. And now the Pharisees and the scribes, they send people out to visit. I'm sure he's making quite a stir. They send people out to see who is this guy? What's he doing? And they start interrogating him here in verse number 19. It says, anyway, they ask, who art thou in verse number 19? In verse number 20, he starts telling them. He says, he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ.   Christ is the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, the Christ being the Messiah.  Because the Jews and the children of Israel had been waiting for the Christ. This is how all people in the Old Testament were saved by believing God's promise that he was going to send a Christ or the Messiah. We see that word used in John chapter one here as well. So the scribes and the Pharisees, they go out to see what this is all about and they asked him, what then? He said, I'm not the Messiah is what he's saying. He said, what then? Art thou Elias. That means that's a New Testament word for Elijah. Are you Elijah? And I'll tell you why in a few minutes why they're asking if he's Elijah. And he said, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, no. Now that's interesting because this kind of shows that, you know, this was a prophecy that Elijah would come first. And this kind of shows that, you know, John was saying, you know, he either knew that it was a spiritual fulfillment or he just didn't know that he was fulfilling this spiritual prophecy. Because he was actually spiritually fulfilling a certain prophecy in the Old Testament by being there. He was the spirit of Elijah as we'll look at in just a few minutes. Look at John chapter one, verse 22. So he tells them, I'm not Elijah. I mean he's not physically Elijah. John the Baptist was not, you know, Elijah, you know, brought back down from heaven. John the Baptist was fulfilling a prophecy, it was a spiritual fulfillment of a prophecy. We'll look at that in just a few minutes. Look at verse 22. They said them, who art thou? They said, who are you then? Then we may give an answer to them that sent us, what sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as sayeth the prophet, Asaius. Now Asaius is Isaiah. Turn to Isaiah chapter 40. Turn to Isaiah chapter 40. This is what, this is what John the Baptist is quoting right here. He's quoting Isaiah chapter 40, which is a prophecy. I mean Isaiah chapter 40. Look at verse number one. Isaiah chapter 40 in the Old Testament. Look at verse number one, where the Bible says, comfort ye, comfort ye my people, sayeth your God, speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. Then verse number three says, the voice of him that cryeth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. So this is what John the Baptist is quoting. He's quoting this messianic prophecy from Isaiah chapter 40. Now turn to Matthew chapter 17.  Alright, look at Matthew chapter 17, and look at verse number 10. Look at Matthew chapter 17. Look at verse number 10. So the disciples actually asked Jesus this. It says, the disciples asked him, saying, why then say the scribes that Elias must first come. And I'm going to show you that prophecy in just a couple of minutes. And Jesus answered and said to them, Elias truly shall come first and restore all things. But I say unto you that Elias has come already and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise also the son of man, also the son of man sufferer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. Now turn to Malachi chapter 4, the last chapter in the Old Testament. Look at Malachi chapter number 4. And let's look at this prophecy in the Old Testament. Malachi chapter 4. Right before the book of Matthew, you'll see the last book of the Old Testament, which is Malachi chapter number 4. And look at verse number 5. This is what the scribes and the Pharisees were referencing when they were asking John the Baptist, are you Elijah? Look at verse number 5. It says, of verse number Malachi 4 verse 5. It says, Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. So the Bible here is quoting that Elijah is going to come and he's going to attempt to make straight the way of the Lord. It's kind of the same thing here. He's going to try to get people's hearts right to prepare for the Messiah to come. That was the point of Elijah coming. And here we see Jesus explain to us in Matthew chapter 17 that it, John the Baptist was a spiritual fulfillment of this prophecy. Okay. So either John was talking in verse number 21 that he was not a physical fulfillment of it. He wasn't actually Elijah. And he knew, I mean, I think that's my opinion. The Bible doesn't really say for sure what he actually knew. But I think that since he was taught of the Lord, that he knew that he was a spiritual fulfillment of that. He just didn't feel like he had to explain things to the scribes and the Pharisees at the time. All right. That's my thoughts on that. Look at verse, go back to John chapter one and look at verse number 23. So basically, if you look at John chapter one in verse number 21, 22 and 23, he's kind of, you know, telling him I'm not actually Elijah, even though he was the spiritual fulfillment of Elijah as Jesus explained in Matthew 17. But in verse number 23, he quotes and he says, I am the one, I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord. He says, I am fulfilling this prophecy in Isaiah chapter 40. So he's literally telling them that he's a prophet is what John the Baptist is telling the Pharisees. He's like, Hey, I am a prophet. I am the guy that is Isaiah chapter 40 was talking about. Now look at verse number 24, verse number 24. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. So they were just there to cause trouble. They weren't going to believe anything that he said anyway. And he said, and they asked of him and he said unto him, Why baptize this thou then? If thou be not that Christ nor Elias, neither that prophet. John answered them saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you whom ye know not.  So again, he's declaring Jesus. He's declaring the Christ. He's declaring this isn't about me. This is about this person that's about to come on the scene. Verse 28 says these things were done in Bethlehem Bara beyond Jordan where John was baptizing. And then verse 29 in John chapter 1 we see the baptism of Jesus here. We see Jesus being baptized. It says the next day John see Jesus coming unto him saying, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. And then in verse number 30 he says again, he says this is he of whom I said after me comeeth a man which is preferred before me for he was before me. Now this is interesting. Turn to Luke chapter 1. So twice John has said about Jesus that he was before me. I mean it's pretty clear that we've seen so far that John knew exactly who Jesus was. He knew, behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. You're not talking about a prophet there. You're literally talking about the Messiah. But he knew exactly who Jesus was.  He knew that Jesus was the Son of God. Look at Luke chapter 1 and it's interesting. The wording he uses that he says is twice. He says for he was before me. Luke chapter 1 says this. Luke chapter 1 talks about Elizabeth who was John's mother. It says, and after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived and hid herself five months saying thus the Lord had dealt with me and the days wherein he looked on me to take away my reproach among men. And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth. So all that to say this, Elizabeth was pregnant six months before. This is going to tell Mary that she is with child of the Holy Ghost is how this story continues. So all that to say this, John the Baptist was born before Jesus. He was at least five, six months older than Jesus physically on this earth. So all I'm trying to say is that Jesus, or John the Baptist when he said for he was before me, he was acknowledging that Jesus was God. He was telling the Pharisees, he was telling the people there that this is the Son of God. He was before John, not because he was born before him, because he was born after John as Jesus was what? He was from eternity. He was, you know, he was not, boy, Jesus always was. He was the Word of God and the Word was God just as we looked at last week. Jesus was from eternity and John is literally acknowledging the deity of Christ with that statement. How many people caught it? Who knows? Definitely not the Pharisees, right? Look at verse number 31 of John chapter one. Now we're going to look at what John was doing, what John was doing. We're going to look at what John was doing the day before, what John was doing when Jesus came there. In verse number 31 it says, so he was doing this thing, he was baptizing people. And it says, and I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest, made known to Israel, therefore I am come baptizing with water. And John bear record saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and an abode upon him. And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, this is the Holy Spirit, and remaining on him the same as he that baptizeeth with the Holy Ghost. So now we see John is baptizing people. He's baptizing people with water. And then he's saying that this person that I'm talking about, the Messiah is going to baptize with the Holy Ghost. So I want to explain to you for just a few minutes the difference between the baptism of water and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. So turn to Acts chapter 2 in verse number 38. Acts chapter 2 in verse number 38. Let's look at the baptism of the Holy Ghost, because this is a very specific thing that happened in the book of Acts. It's something that also it applies to us today, and I'm going to explain to you what that is. Look at Acts chapter 2 in verse 38. There's a lot of false teaching about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and an equivalent of the baptism of the Holy Ghost is being filled with the Holy Ghost. Those are things that are the same. Look at verse number 38 of Acts chapter 2. Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So people that teach baptism for salvation will use this verse all the time. But the point is salvation is the part where it says repent, because repenting means changing your mind from unbelief to belief. So the salvation part of this verse is in the repent part of the verse. And that is just saying, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. What is the gift of the Holy Ghost? What happened in Acts chapter 2? They got filled with the Holy Ghost, and they started speaking in all these different tongues or these different languages, and they started preaching on the day of Pentecost to all these different people that were in Jerusalem from all these different nations, and they started preaching what? They started preaching Jesus Christ to these people. The miracle had a purpose.   It was to preach the gospel to people in the language that they could understand. So that is what the Holy Ghost was doing for them in Acts chapter 2. Look at Acts chapter 1 verse number 5. Again, we see this idea of being baptized with the Holy Ghost, being prophesied to the disciples before it actually happens in Acts chapter 2. But in Acts chapter 1 verse number 5, it says, for John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Again, talking about that day of Pentecost miracle that God is about to perform. Why? It had a very specific purpose. It had a very specific purpose of just spreading the kingdom of heaven on earth, and it made a lot of sense. All these people were come from other nations.  So, being baptized with the Holy Ghost, look at Acts chapter 7. Look at Acts chapter 7. So, when you are saved, and I'm not going to spend the whole sermon on this, but basically this is how the Holy Ghost works with you. Your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost if you're saved. When you are saved, God puts a down payment of the Holy Ghost in you.    Again, Ephesians chapter 4, that's why you can grieve the Holy Spirit, because you have the Holy Spirit with you if you're saved.  But that's not what the Bible is talking about as far as being filled with the Holy Spirit or being baptized with the Holy Spirit. All right?  We should all pray that we be filled with the Holy Spirit when we go out soul winning. We should pray, God, you give me the utterance. Look, I'm telling you, it's a real thing. I mean, the most quiet people, the most introverted people, how is it that they're such great soul winners? Because they have the Holy Spirit working with them when they're out soul winning. You'll literally be with someone who never says anything, the quietest person that you know, and you go out soul winning and you'll see them preach the gospel to somebody you're just like, well, like, where did this come from? It's filled with the Holy Spirit and they're preaching the Word of God. Look at Acts chapter 7 verse number 54. I mean, Stephen, Stephen, the first person martyred in the book of Acts, Stephen gives this huge, awesome sermon, but we don't know much about Stephen if he was some great order or whatever, but the Bible tells us how he was able to do that. Look at verse number 54 in Acts chapter 7. Acts chapter 7 verse number 54, the Bible says, when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, what? Being full of the Holy Ghost, looked upon, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Jesus stood up for this guy, standing on the Word of God, and then he said, behold, I see the heavens open and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God. But he was, this was a fulfillment of the promise given to us in Matthew chapter 10. Turn to Matthew chapter 10.  And he just, he just preaches the Word of God to these people to where they're just, you know, their hearts aren't ready for it. So what? It just, it cut through their stony hearts. It just, they gnashed on him with their teeth and then they upkilling him. They end up killing him and he sees Jesus right before he dies. Look at Matthew chapter 10 in verse number 17. So look, this is a great promise here in Matthew chapter 10. Now that you understand what it means to be filled with the Holy Ghost.   And look, God will answer this prayer for you. Look at verse number 17. But this is a great promise here, especially as, you know, a world gets more and more hostile towards Christians. You don't have to worry about that. Look at verse 17.  Verse 19. But when they deliver you up, take no thought of how or what you shall speak, for it shall be given you in the same hour what you shall speak. For it is not ye that will speak, but of the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. This is a huge promise right here.  And you just be like, you know, I don't know, you read stories like that and you just, I don't know if I could take something like that. I don't know, you know, they're saying recant, recant. All they wanted a lot of these people to do was say, hey, just say that you don't believe in Jesus.  You know, all this suffering can stop and you read these accounts and they never stop. Like they just never recanted. They just never recanted. They're on fire and they're just praising Jesus as they're burning at the stake.  It's possible because God promises that in that time the Holy Spirit will give us utterance. The Holy Spirit will speak for us. So it's not that Stephen was some great man, I mean he was. I mean I don't want to take away from Stephen. I don't want to take away from the courage of these people. But that is just simply God fulfilling his promise by when we need it the most, God promises that he will fill us with the Holy Ghost. You don't have to worry about what you're going to say. You're like I don't even, I can't really quote Bible verses and I can't really do this that well and all that. Hey, at that time you'll be quoting all kinds of stuff if that happens. It's a promise that God, I love that promise. You don't have to worry about that. This is one of those promises that God just gives us. He's like at that time I will fill you with the Holy Ghost and I will tell you what to say.   You will, I mean it's God working with us as we go out and obediently do what we are supposed to do. It's a great promise in the Bible. That's what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And that's exactly what happened on the day of Pentecost. And you know, then weird religions pop up and weird cults are made out of all this. We should just take the Bible for what it says. It's not complicated, right? I mean all these miracles that God did through baptizing these people, that's not the only time that they spoke in other languages in the Book of Acts. I'm sure it wasn't the only time that it happened. You know, throughout Christian history. But the point is there was a point to it. It was people preaching the Gospel and it was God working with them to get people saved. It is the purpose of it. It wasn't just some craziness to try to prove that you're spiritual or prove that you're saved or some weird false gospel. All right? So that's what it means to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, baptized with the Holy Ghost and that's what John was talking about. Now, let's talk about water baptism. Let's talk about water baptism because John was baptizing people in the Jordan River. Turn to Luke chapter 3. The first mention of baptism in the Bible is actually in Matthew chapter 3. But let's look at, what I want to explain to you tonight is why John was baptizing and why Jesus needed to be baptized. You're like, what in the world? Jesus needed to be baptized? Why did Jesus need to be baptized? So that's what I want to explain to you tonight. But first before we can understand why Jesus needed to be baptized, we need to understand why John was baptizing. All right? So look at Luke chapter 3. Look at Luke chapter 3. It's mentioned the first time in the New Testament in Matthew chapter 3. But look at Luke chapter 3 in verse number 2. So this answers why John was baptizing. Why was John baptizing people? Okay? The question is, why was he doing this? Look at verse number 2. Because before Jesus came, he was baptizing other people. Look at verse 2. It says, Anas and Caiaphas, being the high priests, the Word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. So why was John doing what he was doing? This answers it right here because God told him to. The Word of God told John what to do. And he came into a country, into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. As it is written in the books of the words of the psalmist, the prophet, Isaiah saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Isaiah 40, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his past straight. So John was told to do this by the Word of the Lord. John was told to do this by Jesus, by the Word of God. All right? The Word of the Lord came to him in the wilderness. Because it's kind of similar to, you know, how Paul was taken for three years and taught of Jesus. You wonder like Paul wrote, you know, two-thirds of the New Testament. How did he know all this stuff? Because Jesus taught him. But Jesus literally took him for three years and taught him personally. So the Word of God told John to do this. So the question is, what is this water baptism that he's doing? If you kind of read the New Testament the first, second, third time, you're kind of like, it seems like baptism kind of came out of nowhere. It seems like, okay, he's doing this thing, but for some reason the Jews knew what it was. The Jews, it wasn't out of nowhere. Is the point. And the New Testament kind of tells us what it was about. But there's three Old Testament references that I want to show you for baptism. Turn to 1 Peter chapter 3. 1 Peter chapter 3. The Bible kind of tells us in 1 Peter chapter 3 one of the reasons for baptism. It gives us an Old Testament comparison for this. But there's three references to the Old Testament that kind of unlock baptism for us. Let's look at that for just a few minutes here. We're just going to kind of have to do a little bit of a Bible study here tonight to kind of wrap our arms around this one. But to the untrained eye it might seem like baptism came out of nowhere in the New Testament, but that's not the case. Look at 1 Peter chapter 3. The Bible teaches that there are pictures of baptism in the Old Testament. All right, and we see that in 1 Peter chapter 3. Look at verse number 18. The Bible says, For Christ also has suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit. By which also he went and preached unto the Spirits in prison. I believe that's a reference of Jesus going to Hell, his soul going to Hell, which sometime were disobedient when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing wherein few, that is eight souls were what? They were saved by water. All right, now. This is what everybody misses in the Bible that believes false things about baptism. First of all, were they spiritually saved by water? We're talking about they were literally saved. Like their lives were saved. They were physically saved by water. And then the very next three words kind of explain that this is a picture. This is a picture. It says, The like figure wear unto even baptism. Doth also now save us and people will say, people will take those words. Baptism also doth now save us. They'll be like, see, you have to be baptized to be saved. No, read the verse. It says, the like figure. What it is saying is that this is a picture. It's talking about Noah and the eight people in his family, the eight people that people that survived the flood is a picture of baptism. It says, and then it literally says in parentheses, it says, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So what the Bible is explaining here in verse number 21 is that saying that the flood was a picture of physical salvation and baptism is a picture of your spiritual salvation. It's a picture of it. It is not your spiritual salvation. You are not saved spiritually by being baptized. It's a picture of it. Turn to Romans chapter six in verse number four. Romans chapter six, look at verse number four. Romans six four is one of the most common if you have a baptism certificate you've been baptized here. Romans six four is on your baptism certificate. Romans six four kind of explains this in detail. It shows it just kind of a picture of your salvation. It says, therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as, you see that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even oh also should walk in newness of life. So it is a picture of us being buried with Christ and rising again to walk in newness of life. It's a picture of it. It's not your salvation. All right. So the physical salvation of the ark and the eight people saved is a comparison to it's just saying it's a comparison to a pick, you know, baptism of water being a picture of your actual salvation. All right. I mean it's not that complicated. Turn to first Corinthians chapter 10. So and it explains. It says, and then it literally says that it is an answer of a good conscience towards God, meaning it's something that you should do to be obedient towards the Lord. That's what it's talking about. All right. Look at first Corinthians chapter 10. Look at verse number one. First Corinthians chapter 10. We see another Old Testament reference to baptism. First Corinthians chapter 10 in verse number one. It kind of gives us another point of baptism. It says in verse number one. It says more over brethren. I would not that you should be ignorant how that our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea. Talking about the cloud that was leading them. Talking about the parting of the red sea that saved the Israelites from Egypt. And it says in verse number two. It says in all and we're all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. And verse number three is really the key here. It says and did all eat the same spiritual meat. So what this is saying is that they all ate the same spiritual meat showing that baptism identifies you with a group of believers. It identifies you with people that believe the same doctrines as you. The doctrines of the Bible. This is why Jesus chose to be baptized. Not to give away the answer but this is why Jesus chose to be baptized by John because they shared the same doctrine. And it was he was showing his accord with him. Jesus was giving validity to what John was saying by being baptized by him. Go to Leviticus chapter 16. It's also a picture of a cleansing. And so this is probably the main thing that the Jews were thinking that it was referencing in Leviticus chapter 16. It was something that the high priests did. Look at Leviticus chapter 16. Look at verse number three. It says thus Leviticus chapter 16 verse number three. It says thus Aaron talking about the day of atonement here. Right? This is the big chapter. The big chapter that pictures you know we got the bulls, the goats. We got all the different things that are done in this chapter that Jesus fulfills all. Jesus pictures everything in the day of atonement in Leviticus chapter 16. But look at verse number three says before we even get into the sacrifices. It says Aaron shall come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering and he shall put on a holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh. He shall be girded with a linen girdle and the linen mitre shall be attired. This is hat. These are the holy garments. Therefore look at this. He shall wash his flesh and water and so put them on. You know we're kings and priests the Bible says in Revelation chapter one. So it's just a picture again of the cleansing that has taken place after your spiritual salvation. Now turn to Acts chapter eight who should be baptized. Who should be baptized. Acts chapter eight is the quintessential chapter in the Bible that tells us who should be baptized. You know where Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch. Look at verse, I mean the word. You know it's interesting that in Leviticus chapter 16 the priest is to wash himself. I doubt he sprinkled a few drops of water on his head because that wouldn't you know baptism literally means the word means to immerse. That's what the Greek word means. Baptism was actually made up to just it but it meant in the Greek it meant to immerse. So the idea that anyone could be baptized by sprinkling is ridiculous just by the meaning of the original Greek word in the first place. All right.  You know you might as well change that too. Right. Look at Acts chapter eight and look at verse number 26. It says the angel the Lord spake unto Philip saying arise and go towards the south unto the way that go down from Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert and he arose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia eunuch of great authority under Candice the Queen of Ethiopians who had the charge over all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship was returning and sitting in his chariot and he read Eseus the prophet he's reading Isaiah the spirit said unto Philip go near and join myself to this chariot and Philip ran thither to him he's reading messianic prophecies from Isaiah and Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Eseus and said understandeth what thou readest he said how can I accept some man should guide me this is Romans chapter 10 right here you know how are they going to hear without a preacher and he desired that Philip that he would come up and sit with him and the place of the scripture which you read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before his shearer so he opened not his mouth just a prophecy in Isaiah about the Messiah in his humiliation his judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth and the eunuch answered Philip and said I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man so he's asking here's this messianic prophecy and he's saying who is this person and Philip knows the answer so Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus here's the soul winning presentation right here and as they went on their way they came unto a certain water and the eunuch said see here's water what doth hinder me to be baptized he's like here's water so he's had Jesus preached unto him and Philip you know they come to water and he says what doth hinder me to be baptized and Philip said verse 37 if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest meaning if you are saved if you have trusted on Jesus you can be baptized that is who should be baptized people that have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ which is all that it takes to be saved the bible is so clear on that it's more clear on that than anything else is that it only takes believing on or trusting on Jesus and he answered and said I believe now he confesses with his mouth to Philip I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God he commanded the chariot to stand still they went down into the water into the water and both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him so verse 37 is the quintessential verse on who should be baptized it's people that are saved that have believed on Jesus and that's why it's removed from every modern bible because you can't baptize babies if you have verse 37 in there kind of wrecks everything right which is why it's removed you would think people would wonder why it goes from 36 to 38 but apparently they don't all right so it's listing the only one prerequisite to being baptized which is belief which is all it takes to be saved so that's the question now the next question is so now we know who needs to be baptized we know why John was baptizing does baptism save you here's the verses people use Acts chapter 2 go back to verse 38 Acts chapter 2 actually go to Mark chapter 16 I've already kind of explained that one it says repent and be baptized repent meaning believe on Jesus change your mind believe on Jesus be saved and be baptized it's very simple all right look at Mark chapter 16 look at verse number 15 Mark chapter 16 verse number 15 this is another one that people will use to say that baptism that you need to be baptized to be saved but this is I mean all we have to do is read this one and it's very simple Mark chapter 16 look at verse number 15 and he said under them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature so you're gonna go preach the gospel to everybody and you know it says he that believeth so some people are gonna believe some people aren't when you go out and preach the gospel to people some people don't want to hear the gospel you preach the gospel to somebody look we preach the gospel to three people today two got saved one didn't so some people will believe some people won't it says he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved see you have to be baptized to be saved but first of all we don't even need the last half of the verse but the last half of the verse helps us but it says he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved so the bible is saying here he that believeth and is baptized you know shall be saved so that's a true statement he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but here's another true statement he that believeth and drives a forward shall be saved he that believeth and eats turkey on saturday shall be saved he that believeth and installs carpet for a living shall be saved and it explains it to us of the last part of this verse And it says, But he that believeth not shall be damned. Does it say he that believeth not and doesn't install carpet shall be damned? No, the thing that damns you is not believing. Meaning the thing that saves you is belief alone, which is what matches every other part of the Bible. They also use John chapter 3, which I've preached through that before. But the funny thing about John chapter 3 is John chapter 3 is probably the chapter in the Bible. I think it is the chapter in the Bible that says the most times that you just need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. He that believeth on the sun, half everlasting life, verse number 36. I mean, it's got the most clear verses in the Bible about what it takes to be saved. And then they'll take the conversation with Nicodemus at the beginning and say, oh, you have to be born of water and of the spirit. And they'll say, the water is baptism. OK, this Bible has been around for thousands of years. God promised to preserve us. He's miraculously preserved this Bible for us. And yet he makes it contradict itself multiple times in one chapter. Like, you're reading it wrong. You have a problem with the way you're interpreting things in the Bible. I mean, it's just a Bible reading rule. You can't just read something and interpret it where it just makes clear verses wrong or contradictory. It's very simple. It's unsaved people that don't understand what they're reading, what they're talking about. You know, I mean, just imagine Acts chapter 6 and verse number 31. I mean, it's a really complicated verse in the Bible. What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. You're like, man, that's really hard to understand. What do I have to do?  Did they not really tell him how to be saved? Are they lying to him?  You also have to be baptized. You have to do these other things. The poor guy's going to go to hell because they didn't tell him the whole thing. I mean, give me a break. It doesn't make any sense at all. All right, so look, it's just, he that believeth in a baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. It's not believing that damns you. It's because believing is what saves you, all right? Very easy to understand and clarify these things. Two people that want to understand the truth. All right, so back to what baptism is. We know that baptism is for believers. It's for people that are saved. That's what John was doing. He was declaring Jesus Christ to people, and he was baptizing people, all right? Baptism is a command. It's something that we do in obedience to God, in obedience to Christ. It's the answer of a good conscience towards God. You know that, hey, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do what God wants me to do in this Christian life. God gave me this free gift of salvation. I'm gonna do what God wants me to do. It's a picture of my salvation. It's obedience to him. It's the first step in showing him that I'm gonna walk in newness of life. They're not gonna actually just like, hey, I'm saved. See you later, thanks for stopping by. I'm taking this thing, keeping it for myself for the rest of my life. I'm actually gonna walk in this.  And look, it also identifies us with believers as we see with Moses in the Red Sea. So there's a lot of things that baptize, that baptism means.  But you have to remember that people were killed for this. You know, when you look at books like The Martyr's Mirror and all these different accounts of people, many of these people were killed simply because they would not accept baptism as part of salvation. It was baptism that got many Christians in the first few centuries killed because they would not accept it as part of salvation and they would not stop baptizing people. So it's a big deal. And it's a big deal that the doctrine is understand. I mean, that's why Baptists were called Anabaptists. It was a joke. It was a joke. It was a derogatory term. You know, that meant rebaptizers, rebaptizing, but here's the thing. If you've been baptized as a baby as a Lutheran or as a Catholic or baptized in a Pentecostal church or whatever it was, you've never been baptized. So I mean, the irony of Anabaptists and rebaptizers is we only baptize people one time here. But it is a scriptural baptism. Whatever they did when I was a baby was, it was something, but it was not baptism. All right, it was not baptism. So it's an answer of your good conscience and obedience towards God. It identifies you with a local group of believers. It's a picture of your salvation. It's a picture of that cleansing that has taken place. Now turn to Matthew chapter three. It's also something that shows that we wanna walk in that newness of life, as John 6.4 says, and not continue in sin. It's a picture of us showing God that we don't wanna continue in the life that we had. We wanna have that newness of life. We wanna walk in that. Look at Matthew chapter three, look at verse number one. In those days it says, came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He's saying, the Messiah is here, believe on him is what he's saying. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his past straight. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair and a leather and girdle, he had a good belt. I preached the whole sermon on that. I don't know if you guys saw that. But he had a good belt about him, you know, and he was out in Jerusalem, all Judea in the region around Jordan and we're baptizing of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. What were they doing? Were they getting saved by repenting and walking away from their sins? No, they were telling God we're sorry. They're getting things right with the Lord. They got saved, they're getting things right and they're saying, you know what? We're gonna walk in a new life now. You should confess your sins.  It's a good thing to do. You wanna have a good relationship with your heavenly father. Not to make a mockery of the grace that we've been given. I mean, grace will abound, but we're not to make a mockery of it.  Now, why did Jesus get baptized is the question. Now that we know why we should get baptized, why did Jesus get baptized? By the way, just a side note, that's a proof that baptism doesn't save you. It's a proof that baptism does not remit your sins because did Jesus have sins? He was without sin, the Bible says. So baptism itself has nothing to do with the remission of sins. It is just a picture of your salvation because Jesus didn't need to be saved. He came to save. That's the first thing, but then why? Why did Jesus have to get baptized? Are you in Matthew chapter three? You should be in Matthew chapter three. Matthew chapter three. Look at verse 13. We get a little bit more detail in Matthew chapter three in verse number 13 about why Jesus needed to be baptized of John. Look at verse three and it says, then come Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. But John forbade him saying, I have need to be baptized of thee and come and start of me. Imagine God coming to you, asking to be baptized. And you're just like, what in the world? And John said, he didn't understand. Like, you need to baptize me. And Jesus answered, answering said unto him, suffer it to be so now, for thus it becomeeth us to fulfill all righteousness, then he suffered him. Now I'll turn to Philippians chapter two. So John says, you should be baptizing me. I shouldn't be baptizing you. And Jesus says, you need to just do it. He says, you need to just do it. This is what is supposed to happen. We need to fulfill all, I need to fulfill everything, all righteousness. What is he saying? I need to fulfill everything that God the Father has sent me to do. So you need to do this. He said, just suffer it to be so. He's kind of saying, you don't need to understand it. You just need to do it. Now look at verse number eight of Philippians chapter two. Philippians chapter two in verse number eight. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself. This is talking about Jesus. And look at this. It says, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.  He is so stressed out. He was fully man and fully God. He felt everything that we felt. He felt all our temptations. He felt all the pain. He felt all the torture. He knew exactly what was gonna happen. And he just was asking God, if there's any way, remove this cup from me. And God said, God said, there is no way. He's like, this is what needs to happen in order for salvation to be available to who? To all men. He's saying, you have to do it. And what did Jesus do? He was obedient. He did it. Jesus got baptized by John because he was obedient. He was showing obedience to God. And why? Why did he go to John to get baptized? Because he identified with John's doctrine. Because he wanted to validate exactly what John was saying. What was John saying? He was saying that Jesus is the Son of God. That Jesus is the Lamb of God. That Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus is the one that everybody's been waiting for. And he's saying, he's valid. He's right. Here I am. Baptize me. Why? Because he's being obedient to God. Now, doesn't that kind of sound like why we should get baptized? For obedience to God? He identified with John's doctrine. That's kind of like why we should be baptized. We should get baptized and then we should rise from the water and walk in newness of life. Jesus was, what was about to happen in Jesus's life? He was about to start his ministry. The very next thing that happens in John chapter one is Jesus starts calling disciples. And he starts walking in his ministry on this earth. So as Jesus marks the beginning of his ministry with his baptism, it is showing us that we should mark the beginning of our Christian life with baptism. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. Jesus got baptized for the exact same reasons that we should get baptized. It's a beautiful picture. It's a beautiful picture. And we should walk in newness of life just as Jesus walked and started his ministry on this earth. He was being an example to us here of why we should get baptized. Obedience to God, identifying with the proper doctrine, being saved of course, and walking. And walking this walk, deciding, you know what? I'm not just gonna be saved and hang onto this and do nothing, I'm gonna start doing what the Bible says and I'm gonna start making some changes and start preaching the gospel to people, start getting people saved, start enlarging the kingdom of heaven, just exactly what Jesus was about to go do with this three and a half year ministry. So why did Jesus get baptized? The exact same reason that we should. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


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and welcome to Movement Matters. I'm your host, Christine Linter's physical therapist or certified orthopedic clinical specialist. Today I'm gonna talk all about neck pain. And I wanna ask you, who of you has neck pain or suffers from maybe frequent headaches?  If this is you, has anyone ever explained to you why you have pain or what you can do to quickly alleviate your pain? Today I'm gonna show you why you have neck pain or headaches as well as teach you simple stretches and exercises you can do anywhere to relieve your pain. One of the biggest culprits that I see in the clinic is poor posture and it's all about the alignment in your neck.  So posture is one important reason why you could be having neck pain. In addition to whiplash, I've had two rear end car accidents where I had whiplash and it rearranged my spine. So I know all too well when an x-ray looks bad and you think, oh my gosh, how could I possibly get rid of my neck pain? How is this ever going to get better? Because what you see as far as the canals and the nerve compression or arthritis in the joint or disc herniations bulging and contacting nerves, all of those things I've seen in myself and my patients on x-rays and MRIs. And what I wanna tell you is there's good news just because you have something like that on your x-ray or on your MRI does not mean that you have to continue to be in pain.  So you need to change your posture and get into the proper position so that you can get yourself out of pain. So how do you do that? Let's go to image number one, where I'd like to explain how one of my coworkers has just a little bit suboptimal posture. And you can see on the left, I took a picture of her sitting. You can see I drew some little lines where you could see her shoulders relatively straight up and down in the picture on the left and her neck has an angled forward approach. So if you again, look at her ear, it's not sitting straight over the central axis. That banding kind of gives us a good view where the central axis is on her shoulder and how her ear is pushed further forward.  So if we go back to the photo and you look at the picture on the right, I asked her to correct her posture and I'll show you that in a minute. Her arm's a little bit more forward, that's okay. You can still see that central access point almost like the bandaid and then look up to her ear. And now her ear has moved back over her shoulder and there's more of a straighter line from that central access point of her shoulder up to her ear. Now in that position, your neck is in homeostasis. She sits at a desk and just through her neck out about a month ago, she was washing her hair or fixing her hair and she sneezed and she got like, oh my gosh, I can't move my neck. So we were working that for the show. So let's talk a little bit about headaches before I go into the posture correction and how you can fix your posture. Headaches are a real problem when you sit forward like I showed in that image because it pushes your neck forward and the muscles right up here get really short. Now they're tiny, they're about this long and they run kind of up from the first cervical vertebrae here up to the base of your head and they run from the first cervical vertebrae here down to your spine. And they also have these little ones that run like this from your first and second cervical vertebrae up and your first and second cervical vertebrae up to the head, which is like a bowl sitting on top of that first vertebrae. Why people can get headaches when they sit like that with their head a little bit forward is those muscles get held in a more shortened position but also there's so many nerves that pass underneath and through those little muscles going here and those little muscles going here. And so it's very easy for a nerve to get pinched inside the muscle and you to get eye grain headaches or this side headaches or the piercing pain right at the back of your neck. So let's go to image number two which I got from sciencetrack.com for the purpose of this video.   That's what's giving people a lot of headaches and I tend to call them neck headaches or posture headaches, eye grains.  So let's talk a little bit more about let's talk a little bit more about some questions that I got from a viewer. How are my neck and headaches related? So I just kind of think I kind of answered that question pretty well for you is if you can have your head and neck here where this gets kinked, you'll start getting a pinching on the nerves in that area where the muscles can clamp on theirs and give you all sorts of headaches. So how do you fix that? I know that wasn't part of the question but how do you fix that? You correct your posture. So let's go to video three where we see how to correct your posture. Now correct your posture. So move your head, tuck your chin and lift your chest. Move your head back and now relax into your other posture. Okay, so move your head back between your shoulders. Yes.  Yeah, there you go. Back, that's perfect. Okay, good. That's a very simple correction. And so if you're just sitting, you can see my ear here. If you're just sitting here, all you do is there's a couple of cues.  So you lift your chest.  So it's sitting more over the central access point of your shoulder. And you will notice a big difference that the trouble in the beginning is if you're not used to sitting in good posture, you need to find a way to remind yourself. And you can do that lots of different ways. You can use your cell phone, set the timer to go off every 15 to 20 minutes that acts as a posture reminder.  A lot of things that I do are just to kind of put my hands behind my head and squeeze my shoulder blades back like that. And that just corrects my posture. It reeducates the muscles in the back of my body to hold my bowling ball of a head up. So okay, so you've got that forward posture and you know it and you realize, geez, yeah, I look down at books, I've got a new baby, my neck hurts all the time, I've got headaches, you might have nerve compression down your arm or tingling from a car accident or some other sort of injury. What do you do? These exercises are so simple, you don't need a band or anything else. Let's go to video number four where we learned the first one.  When you nod your chin down towards your chest, you get two things that happen at once. The first thing is you're re-educating the deep cervical flexors, which help to stabilize the vertebrae in your spine, each individual bone. So you're re-educating those.  So initially, while you're doing that exercise, some people will say, oh, wow, I feel a pulling on the back of my neck when I do it, it's really stretching. So you can use it as a stretch while you nod your chin down and you can use it as a strengthen where you're getting these muscles. So that's your beginner part. You can do it sitting in the car seat at a light, your head against the head rest, nod your chin down, especially if you wake up in the morning and your neck is stiff from sleeping on your side. I'll talk a little bit more about bed position in a minute, but let's go to video number four where we show the second part of the chin tuck exercise. This exercise I call the chin tuck press press for the chin tuck and squish.  Nod your chin down, oops, she lifted her neck a little bit like that, but chin down, squish the pillow. It's a very delicate exercise, chin down, squish the pillow. I suppose you could do it into your hands, chin down and push into your hands and resist. Chin down, push in your hands and resist. That's a great exercise that I have used to get rid of my headaches. When I have caught myself looking down and working on patience, I'm working on someone's low back where I have to have my head hanging forward for a duration of time. And the key with these exercises is that those two are best to do in the morning, let's say, when you can lay down or in the middle of the day if you're working at home, you can do them or in the car, like I was saying, I did so that you can elongate your neck and get ready for your day, but you can't always lie down. And so you need to have a few things that you can do sitting, standing. And that's where I came up with this one where you just nod your chin down and push back into your hands.  I have another question. My doctor says my neck shows degeneration and arthritis. How can these exercises help me if there's already damage? That's a great question. I hear that all the time in the clinic and for my friends actually can say yes, but the doctor said that there's compression in my spine. The doctor said that I've got arthritis. The doctor said MRI showed X. And the doctor is telling you everything that's wrong on the inside of your neck and that's what they see on the scans. But what's important to take away from that message is that you still need to fix your posture. You still need to get these muscles functioning better. You still need to elongate the muscles in the back. You still need to stretch those upper cervical muscles if you're having headaches. Like all of those things on your X-ray and MRI are true, but it doesn't mean you have to continue to have pain. And that's why a lot of doctors will send people to physical therapy or chiropractic or massage or acupuncture is to try to fix all the other aspects that are leading to your pain other than the internal damage or derangement that's in your spine. That's a great question. So let's go to video number six where we show a very simple, it does involve a band, very simple exercise that I used to get out of neck pain and headaches and my patients love it. This exercise, you need to get a band, a red or a green thera-band is excellent. You just hold the band so it stays flat so it's not balled up.  So you just statically chin tuck, push back into the band and then you just move your arms forward and backwards. So you're getting a contraction of your deep cervical neck flexors as well as getting a contraction of all of the posterior postural muscles that help hold you up all day while you're at work.  I know sometimes that seems counterintuitive to strengthen a muscle that's screaming out in pain but it actually is often the reason why it's in pain. So here's another variety. Let's go to video number seven to see the second part of that exercise.   The neck is a very intricate part of the spine. It's the part that holds the head up. It allows for incredible amounts of range of motion turning your head left and right, tilting your head, tilting your head one way, looking the other way is so amazing. So all these little exercises are very simple. You see, you can do them in minutes and enjoy the benefits of a pain training. So now what about stretching? When I had my car accident in college, I remember one of the only things that helped me to be free from pain was stretching. I had the eye grains all the time and I wanna explain a little bit about an eye grain or those my grains that you get in one part of your eye. The most common reason for that is there's a muscle that runs from the top of your shoulder blade right here all the way up to the base of your head. And a lot of times people, it's the dominant side often. A lot of times people are using their, let's say their right arm, their mouse clicking, they're holding their phone and your elbow is not supported. Now that muscle is called the levator scapula. And the reason why it's called that is simple, it's its function. Is it elevates your shoulder blade? Another word for shoulder blade is scapula. So when you're constantly like this, that levator scapula touches from the base of your head to the top of your shoulder blade is held in a constant contraction. And so what it starts to do is it starts to pull your neck like this. And all those nerves that I showed you in the beginning get compressed in that area and you start getting that headache right in the front. So simple way to do it if you're at a desk is to support your elbow on the surface. Don't let your elbow be free. If you're on your phone, maybe you fold your arms, you'll see them up for a second. Maybe you fold your arms like this and use your phone so it's not hiking up like that. So you can rest your arm on something so you don't get that levator scapula headache, but also let's, this is my right arm. There's a stretch I wanna show you that I love and how I do it is I'll take my hand, put my hair up for this, I'll take my hand and I will run it up the back of my neck like I'm going up towards the ceiling that elongates my neck and then I pull over towards the opposite side. You'll get a nice stretch in here.  Now that gets your upper trap. If you keep your face facing forward, you'll feel a nice stretch right here. If you wanna feel the levator scapula, all you have to do in that position is look toward the armpit on the same side and then you get all of this right here, all of this and while you're pulling your hand up, that's giving you a nice stretch in this muscle to free yourself from pain. So let's go to video number eight where you can see a little bit more about that. Okay, so a great stretch to relieve that neck tension is to grab your hand and pull up toward the base of your skull and then pull your neck over towards the side of the hand that you're using. It really stretches out these two critical muscles that can be responsive for headaches and neck tension. My coworker Noelle reminded me that I'd given her that stretch a while ago and she said to me, I just need some stretches and exercise that I can do at the desk without a band. What can I do? And that was one of the ones that I use all the time for me to get rid of my neck tension. And I have to say it's been about 20 or so years since I've had my first car accident and my neck is better than it has ever been. Now I have gone through this huge process of learning on myself before I was a physical therapist and as I became a physical therapist and now now to develop different exercises that I've found to work and why they work. So I'm feeling great. I sleep on a flat pillow. That's another important thing is your pillow when you sleep is kind of critical to having a good neck in the morning and a pain-free neck in the morning. So one of the biggest problems that I see is people will lie in their bed with their head kind of propped up on many pillows and do some reading. And then you're kind of stressing your neck in that bent position like I showed in the first video except for you've got your weight and gravity pushing your neck forward. So that's not a great way to start before you go to sleep. But it's also important. You wanna have a soft pillow that keeps your head in line. If you're on your back, which is like the best position, you wanna have a pillow that supports this part of your neck and a little bit on your head, not a pillow that pushes your head and neck forward this way. You wanna have it nice. And if you have a flat pillow but you feel like you just don't have the support, one of the things that I did and all you need to do is take a sweatshirt or a T-shirt and squish it up and put it in this part of your neck to support the curve in your neck. That's a big one to getting pain-free when you sleep is supporting the curve of your neck, especially on your back. Now find your side because my have wide shoulders. So if I just have a flat pillow here and I'm on my side, my neck is gonna have to bend to get to the pillow. So what you wanna do is use enough pillow on your side that your head is not bending down towards the bed. And at the same time, don't use too many pillows that your head is now being pushed up that way. So that's another way to set yourself up for a good night sleep and a happy neck in the morning. Now, if you're a stomach sleeper, that's a little bit more of a challenging thing for the neck because your head's gonna have to be twisted either one way or twisted the other way. And people tend to twist it one way when they sleep just out of comfort and habit. If that's the case, what I instruct my patients to do is to put a pillow under your chest or on your stomach to protect your back but definitely under your chest because if you put one under your chest, it moves your chest a little bit above the bed so your head's not so cranked like this. It's a little bit of a delicate twist to the side. Now, as far as other exercise that you can do without any equipment or bands, let's go to video number nine to show you how to open your chest to free up the tension in the neck.   And then come back. Push through the wall, lift your chest and inhale. And you stretch out all these tight pec muscles here and then come back. Same thing, push through the wall, lift your chest, inhale. And open up that chest to take the tension off your neck. If you have been a viewer of Movement Matters over the past two years, you have seen that exercise pop up many times in my shows and that is because it is so important to having a healthy shoulder, a healthy neck, a healthy back.  So we're using our arms in front of us to type, we're cooking, we're cleaning dishes, we're making our bed, we're changing our clothes, we're working on projects, we're writing, we're using our phones. And if you don't have optimal posture, that muscle gets short. And when it gets short, you kind of see what it does, it pulls you forward and it pulls you forward into a bad posture.   If you try nothing else that I showed you today, try that, your neck will thank you. One hand on either side of the door, straight out, not bent this way. It's really important to have it straight out. You can go a little higher than shoulder height as well. Bend the front leg, push yourself through the door and inhale and lift, lift your chest to the ceiling and then release. Lift your chest to the ceiling and then release. You can also use the back foot and push up onto your toe on the back foot. Lift your chest up and release. Let's go to video number 10 to show another easy exercise you can do at your desk in your chair and your sofa forever.  It's kind of like a chin tuck.   Good and then release. Push your head back, that's it. Squeeze your elbows back. Another one that you can do is push your head back into your hands, lift your chest and then reach one elbow up towards the ceiling. Good and breathe and stretch.  Good to maintain that perfect posture and lean the other way and take a deep breath in. My favorite, I have been doing that for several years now. I think I came up with it when I was in Connecticut in New York and I was trying to find a way to get people at their desk to get out of that forward position to open up their chest, to get movement in their body since sitting still is so harmful to our bodies. Try it, it's very simple.  Stretch, squeeze your elbows back. You can also lean. You'll feel a nice stretch in your thorax in the middle of the trunk, especially if you have compression or back pain when you're sitting. And I have another question. I've had a car accident and my neck hasn't been the same since. I can vouch for that. Will these exercises help? Yes, I am an attestation to that. My car accident was when I was 20 years old and so it's been quite a amount of time since then and my neck, while it looks not so good on the MRI, next right, my neck feels good and I play beach volleyball and I swim and I surf and I modify things and I do my exercises every day as I drive to work. I do that chest stretch. So I suggest you do the same. So I'm gonna wrap this show up. I hope that helps everyone out there that has neck pain or headaches to relieve your pain and know that you can do something about it. And I hope you join me in two weeks. Thank you so much everybody for joining me. 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