There is a nurse whose patients are participants in a medical study. One of the requirements of the study was that her patients had to write down everything that they ate and drank over a course of several weeks. Then she drew their blood and sent it to a laboratory for evaluation. Then every other month her patients had an ultrasound on their carotid arteries.

Once patients saw for themselves the evidence of what their freewheeling eating habits were doing to their blood, internal organs, and the lining of their arteries, lifestyle changes took place immediately. She showed me the "before" and "after" clinical charts of patient after patient.

People instantly walked away from smoking, their use of alcohol, foods that were laced with sugar and fats, and their sedentary lifestyle. When people discovered how quickly they could reverse the decay of their bodies with proper nutrition and exercise, they took charge of habits that had slowly developed over many years. Laziness and procrastination vanished. In fact, the nurse told me that her own life had changed from seeing what her patients were accomplishing.

There is nothing so compelling as when we discover something that works. Jesus healed. That was very different then the authority of the religious leaders. The proof that Jesus was, of a different order, was there in front of them and they came from everywhere.