The Eric Metaxas Show - Chauncey Crandall (Encore)

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

Dr. Chauncey Crandall speaks on the power of God to heal the sick and raise the dead. More at: https://chaunceycrandall.com/

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Church. I mean, you have a way with words. Now, there's a number, there are a number of chapters in the book, the eclipse of God that I want to ask you about. You ask, is God more tolerant than he used to be? Returning to the God of truth, not truthiness, returning to the God of creation, not blind chance. Every one of these chapters piques my interest. Returning to the God of moral absolutes, returning to God as lawgiver returning to the God of wrath and grace, not unconditional love. All right, where do we start? Well, first of all, you mentioned the chapter is God more tolerant than he used to be. And there's where I deal with the Old Testament versus the New. Old Testament, you know,

you have the stoning of the Canaanites, the killing of the Canaanites, you have stonings for various offenses. We don't have that in the New Testament. So is God more tolerant under grace than was under law. So those chapters show absolutely it is the same God. As a matter of fact, the more light we have, the greater the judgment. When you read the book of Revelation, you discover that there's nothing in the Old Testament that compares to the judgments that are coming. That's why we need to revise our understanding of God and get back to the Bible. But the other chapters, I want to comment on two very quickly. The one on truth, not truthiness.

You know, the dictionary said that truthiness is a new word. It was kind of the word of the year a few years ago. Here's the thing. I want parents out there to understand why is it that when you send your child to college or university, they come back and they don't think the way we do. No, they sure don't oftentimes. Why? Because truth has been moved to something objective that exists outside of you that has to be found to something subjective that is a part of me. And what I think, as a matter of fact, I have quotes there where they say that there's no one meaning to a text like the Constitution. The question is, what does it mean to me? And so students go to university oftentimes. to highlight who they are. And the whole LGBTQ plus movement was really governed by compassion.

Now, compassion is important, of course. But you can be compassionate about wrong things. What we have to do is to understand what happens to history, what happens in our culture when we leave the idea of truth and we say to ourselves, we don't want truth. We just want happiness wherever it's fine. Actually, I should make the point that in my book, Letter to the American Church, on the cover of my book, Letter to the American Church,

is a very generous endorsement from you right on the cover. But the reason I bring up Letter to the American Church is that in that book there's a chapter. I call it the idol of evangelism. any wonderful thing evangelism compassion when it becomes an idol it pulls us away from god and most people can't conceive of that they think compassion how could that go wrong you could say the same thing about evangelism if if all i care about is evangelism and i'm not speaking the truth because i'm afraid maybe uh it'll push someone away from coming to god you have to have discernment you have to have wisdom and this is issue of compassion has become an idol so that people will reject truth in favor of compassion.

I mean, that's kind of, it's the same concept. Also, I know that we have a very limited amount of time. I wish I could go into the whole issue of the borders of the United States. Would you please? It's based on the idea of compassion. No government should be run on the basis of compassion. Now it should be compassionate if it can be. But the responsibility of government is the sword.

That's why the symbol is the sword, namely to keep order to punish evildoers to protect those who are doing good. Compassion is definitely the role of the church. And as long as we get those confused, I mean, should we ask the government to forgive 70 times seven? No, that is truth to the church, not to government. But there's something else, Eric, and I need to get to get. to this because of your interest in Nazi Germany. And I mentioned this in the book that we're talking about, the eclipse of God, the idea of law. I was in Nuremberg recently. I was actually in Room 600 where the Nazis were tried. And the question that arose was this, by whose laws

should we judge them? The Nazis argued they didn't break any laws because Hitler had made the killing of Jews legal. So as Eichmann said, he wasn't in Nuremberg, but as he said, I was just obeying the laws of my country and the laws of my flag. Now there in that courtroom, a man stood up Robert Jackson and he gave a lecture on the law above the law, that there are transcendent laws. And one of the things that I show in this chapter is that you cannot have transcendent. laws like that, unless you believe in a God, a God of creation, a God who can speak to all of humanity. It cannot arise out of the human situation anymore than water can rise above its source. So that's why I root the whole idea of law also, the idea of human rights. It has to be in the

creation account. Here's a verse that comes to us from Isaiah Phil. I think I have it correct, verse 14, where it says this, righteousness stands afar off. Justice cannot enter because truth has stumbled in the public square. Now, you just think about that. If you don't have transcendent laws, justice becomes whatever people wanted to be. You have environmental justice. You have a same-sex marriage justice. You have economic justice.

Justice becomes whatever people wanted to be unless it is rooted in some transcendent principles. And then I have to quickly comment on the last chapter, the book that you read, where it says that we have to get back to the God of law, excuse me, we have to get back to the God of wrath and grace, not the God of unconditional love. And I wrote that book so that anyone reading it would finally be brought to their knees in repentance and faith to receive Christ as Savior, who is the only one qualified to save us from the wrath to come. My book, the heart of it, is to bring people back to the God of Scripture and show what happens when we leave that behind. Well, we've just got a minute left. I'm not sure what we can touch on, but the book is the eclipse of God. It's available now. Erwin Lutzer is the author. What can we say in 60 seconds? In 60 seconds, I can say this, that only God can save us. We have problems in America that no political party can solve. It's important. Politics is important. I could go on a long time talking about that. But ultimately, We have to return to the God of the Bible and not the gods of popular culture. That's my heart, and that's the thrust of the book.

Well, it's very important. It's an important message. Erwin, it's always fun to talk to you. We could go on for days because these ideas are very, very important. And the church, as you were saying earlier, many in the church have drifted left. It was only a couple of years ago that Andy Stanley said we have to unhitch from the Old Testament. And you think, what are you saying as though that's a different God? Eric, I want to interrupt you.

I deal with that in the book. The relationship of the Old Testament that knew. And I refer to him and show how far off base that is. And that's why I bring it up because that's one of the things you touch on in the book. In any event, we're out of time. Erwin Lutzer, my friend, thank you. Folks, the book is the eclipse. Thank you so much, Eric.

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Thank you, Eric. It's a great blessing to be with you today. I had such a wonderful time at our breakfast recently, and I thought I've got to get you and your story on my program. I want my audience to know not just that you exist, but your story of linking the medical world to the world of dramatic Christian faith, healing. Where do we begin? How about if we, give us the, I don't know, the briefest overview and then we can just dive in from the beginning.

Well, Eric, you know, I gave my life to Christ when I was 19, and that was well before medical school. That was in a Presbyterian church denomination, and I didn't know about the supernatural back then. That church didn't teach those things. But when I went away the medical school, and when I was at Yale University, your university, also. I started seeing cases of people that were healed by the power of prayer. I didn't understand it. I didn't know anything about it biblically. And it was by observation that I understood that certain people that believed in God could pray for those that were sick and those people would recover from their illness. That started at Yale University in that hospital.

I guess, you know, if somebody asked me to sum you up, I would say that, you know, you're somebody with what should be described as impeccable medical credentials, right? You got your postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine. You completed three years of research in the cardiovascular surgery division and on and on and on and on. You're at the top of the world in that profession. And then you have this experience with faith, as you just described it, where you see people being healed. The reason it's exciting for me to talk to you is because it's not typical that people who see dramatic, faith, healing in the name of Jesus are also, you know, surgeons who are trained at Yale Medical School.

So you've seen the best and probably the worst in both worlds. And there are very few people with your credentials who are in the field praying for the sick. Well, you know, it wasn't something that I wanted to jump into. It was observation, Eric. it was exciting. I felt the presence of God, the presence of the Holy Spirit. And these patients taught me about that, that there was something more than I had been taught in church. There was a deeper relationship with Christ that we could have. And all of that really surrounded the power of the name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, Eric. I was coming about,

slowly understanding that the Holy Spirit was with us. He was with us in the operating room. He was with us as we walked the wards of the hospital, but it took years and years to understand the fullness of the true gospel error. Well, I have to ask you kind of an obvious question, but does your outspoken faith rankle the medical establishment? Because, you know, I always think of people like you, or to some extent, me, we're the worst nightmare of the people whom we grew up with,

you know, whether at Yale as an undergrad or Yale Medical School, that they just think, what happened to you? Like, I can't bear the idea that this person that I knew that has the same credentials that I do, that knows what I know, but that now they're outspoken about Jesus or something. It just, it's a, that world is very uncomfortable with the, kind of faith that you have and that I have. But nobody can take these credentials away from you. What has been your experience, you know, being as outspoken as you are when you bump into people from that world? Well, the issue is that they think you're a radical because you believe in the

Word of God and you have seen miracles. You know, you've seen blind eyes open, the cripples walk, people raised from the dead even. And they consider you an outlier. And they're unconstitutional. being around you because you have seen with your own eyes and witness the miraculous things that the gospel talks about, which many people have not pursued. I think the thing is, Eric, is that I've remained hungry all these years. I know that there is more, and I pursue that. So in my practice, at one point I was totally out of control, praying for everyone that came through that practice, and we would stay there late at night. And it got out into the community of other physicians.

And many of them would not send their patients to me because they heard that I pray for the sick. You have to laugh. I mean, I laugh just because over the decades, you know, I have, I'm sure as you have, you bump into people, you know, from Yale or from that world. And it's sort of unbearable for them. And I think it's unbearable because they can kind of smell that it's real.

And it just really violates the narrative that they've sold their souls for. It just it puts them in an exceedingly awkward position on some level. So they have to, I think for their mental health, they have to kind of pretend you don't exist or you've gone nuts. Or they have to just look away. Well, I think they are uncomfortable. but the issue is they have not remained hungry for the things of God, Eric. If they have remained hungry, they would pursue the Lord, and he would reveal his greatness and the opportunities and the fullness of the gospel that is there.

Well, you say, they're no longer hunger. But I don't know why would you assume they ever had hunger? In other words, I think that they're people. And look, I was one of them. I didn't have hunger. I was just stumbling along through life and God and his memory. Mercy found me. It's in any case, I don't mean to get off on that rabbit trail.

Your most famous book is called Raising the Dead, I think. Is that the one that we would, and that's the one where you tell the story about praying for someone who had died and seeing them raised from the dead. That will change you, I would think. That was kind of the moment. When did that happen? Can you tell that story? because that's a sort of a seminal moment. That was in early 2000, 2003, I think.

And that was a day, Eric, that I felt I didn't feel totally in God's fullness. You know what I'm saying? Prayed up, fasted up, all these things. And the biggest miracles I have ever seen are on those days when I didn't feel the total presence of God. You know, often we think we have to pray up, fast up, read the word of God, attend church, and all this, and then the Lord will use us. He will use us any day of the week. We just need to jump out and proclaim his name.

And that happened that day that man presented to the hospital with a massive heart attack. He died. They worked on him for over 40 minutes. They called me to the case, and I had a very busy day. and in fact, I declared the man dead. He was being prepared to go to the morgue that day. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You declared the man dead.

I don't remember this part of the story. So you come in as the medical professional and you go, yep, he's dead. And you officially professionally declare him dead. Yes, I declared it with the emergency room physician, that there was nothing else we could do to keep this. alive. We declared him dead. We ended the resuscitation, and he was being prepared for the morgue, Eric. All right. He was being prepared for the morgue. And then what happened? Well, I finished my note in the room, and I left the room in the emergency room. I walked down the hall, and I heard the voice of the

Lord call on me to turn around and pray for that dead man. And I thought to myself, I could. I can't pray for him. I don't even know what to pray. Is that really you, Lord? And I kept walking down the hallway. And as I did, I heard the voice of God come back a second time, turn around and pray for that dead man. So I turned around. I walked down that hallway, back into the emergency room, into the room where that man was being prepared for the morgue. The nurse was sponging down his body, all the IV, and tubes had been pulled out of him, and I stood over his body, and I prayed this prayer. Father God, I cry out for this man's soul. If he does not know you as Lord and Savior, raise him from the dead now in the name of Jesus.

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You said that all of the IVs, everything had been taken out. You had already declared him dead a while ago, but God commands you to go in and pray. Like anybody, you just say, is this you, Lord? This doesn't make sense. Obviously, it doesn't make any sense. But you hear it again and you go in. And you just said, you prayed. Was there anyone in the room when you did this?

Was the nurse who had been sort of dealing with the corpse? Was she there? She was behind the body, and I was on the other side. And she looked at me like, what are you doing in this room? And I laid my hands on his abdomen and started praying in the name of Jesus for his life to be restored. And he came back to life that day, Eric. Now, what exactly happened? In other words, you know, what you just said, okay, make sense, but let's go a little bit deeper.

You're dealing with a corpse that you have officially declared this to be a corpse, a former living person, someone who is dead. Time has passed. This is not like, you know, you thought he was dead. You knew he was dead. The nurse knew he was dead. He's preparing him for the morgue, literally, and you then come in and you pray. So she looks at you like you're crazy. You go through this prayer.

While you're praying this prayer, you clearly didn't know what the result of this prayer, where you're being hopeful, you're being faithful, you're being faithful, you're being obedient to God who has told you to do this. But you look like a crazy man to the nurse. How long, how many seconds was it from your prayer to? to actually seeing anything. And what did you see initially that said there's life? Well, Eric, you know, this woman, I mean, was on the other side.

She was not a believer. She almost looked like she was full of the devil. She didn't want me in that room. And she gave me this stern look. I finished that prayer. And as I finished that prayer, I backed off the body backwards out of the room. and my right hand went up in the air as if to praise God. I had no control over it.

And as I'm backing out of the room, the emergency room doctor walks in. And for whatever reason, I said, shot this man again. And he said, impossible. He's gone, Dr. Crandall. There's no life in him. And I commanded him to take those paddles and put it on his body and shock him. And when he did that, immediately a perfect heartbeat came back. And a minute later, the abdomen started moving.

We didn't do anything. We were in shock. We were just standing there watching the monitor, watching the body. And all of a sudden, the abdomen started moving. The hands started wiggling. And all of a sudden, a gush of wind came out of his mouth. And the nurse screamed. What are we going to do with him?

now, Dr. Crandall. Those were her words. And I said, I don't know. And we stood there, dumbfounded, like, what is happening? God must be moving in this room. I had never seen anything like that. The doctor was shocked, the nurse was shocked,

and we had to deal with that man, and we took him to the critical care unit just shortly after that. It's astonishing. I mean, it's a story you've told many times. I believe you told it on the 700. Club, that might have been the first time I saw it around that time. When did your book come out raising the dead?

That came out probably the middle of around 210, something like that, Eric. And I will tell you that that book has gone around the world. It's been in many different languages. It's an encouraging book of a dead raising, but also my life. And it gives people encouragement that there's so much more to our walk with Jesus. There's the fullness of healing and deliverance and even the ability to raise those people back to life. Well, I'm always astonished at people who are serious about their Christian faith who don't really believe in this stuff and they want to be able to dismiss it. And so if somebody prays for healing or deliverance or anything like that, they just dismiss it.

It's very tough to dismiss it when, you know, somebody who has. lectured on these medical issues as you have that has practiced in this world that has been at Duke and at Yale and on and on when you say this stuff. Did the doctor that was there who joined you and that nurse, did they ever comment on this? Did they just slough this off as, oh, well, I guess he wasn't dead after all? No. It was the buzz of the hospital, Eric. The Holy Spirit started moving. People started being touched, okay, in that hospital system.

It was a buzz. There was electricity that a miracle had taken place. And it went throughout the wards of the hospital and continued to stay in activity with many of the nurses for years and years and years. Well, what's interesting to me is that obviously if you had not come back into the room and prayed. And, you know, in other words, it was only in obedience to hearing from God, which is itself radical, because many Christians don't hear from God or don't know about that. But you hear from God forces you to go against everything that makes sense to go back and obediently pray for him and then to tell the other doctor to put the paddles on him. So, you know, if it weren't for your faith, this can't be written off, or I guess the aspect of your praying and being part of it in that way, that's really what makes the story. This is not just something like we can kind of, I guess, process it in a natural way.

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especially as a doctor, especially as a doctor, to see limbs restored. I mean, what are some of these miraculous things that you saw with your own eyes? Well, you know, all we have to do is read the Bible and see the miracles there and those were happening on the crusade fields. But to see crowds of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people with all sorts of deformities crying out to God and the power of the Holy Spirit, this is really what Bunk of he helped me with that the Holy Spirit is there, no matter how you feel, what type of day you've had, that the Holy Spirit never leaves you, Eric.

He is always with you as a believer in Christ, and you can call on Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is there. And as we would walk through those crowds, I can remember one event where I just was with another man, and he just started crying. He said, there are too many. We can't reach all of them. We can't lay hands on every single one, hundreds of thousands of people. We stayed in that field for hours and hours and hours for those poor people that were coming that needed assistance and help.

We saw blind eyes opening and the deaf ears opening and the cripples walking. I can remember one day the event I prayed for this cripple man. And he had these homemade crutches that were. carved and the crusade was over and I was walking in the field by myself the next day helping them take down the crusade stage the grass was tall in the field and I said Lord I don't even need to see the people to see your glory show yourself to me and as I finished that prayer Eric I tripped over these crutches and they were the crutches of the man that I had had prayed for the night before. They had the same carvings in there. I said, oh, Lord, he left this

field healed. And as I continued to walk through the tall elephant grass, Eric, there were more crutches. There were more canes, hundreds of crutches and canes of people that came to the event. And they were healed in the name of Jesus. They left their crutches and canes and left that field totally restored in Jesus' name. Well, I know you saw so much of this. You're like my friend Ken Fish. This is normative. He's seen so much of it, and there are many people that have.

I've seen very little of such things, and most people haven't seen with their own eyes, these kinds of things. Did you ever see any kind of anything right in front of your eye, like a limb growing back? I mean, you hear about stuff like this. Have you seen anything? Well, I haven't seen a limb grow back. but I've witnessed a body distorted by arthritis start popping and cracking before my very eyes and the body straightening out. I mean, it's a sound that I'll never forget those bones popping and cracking right in front of me.

You were telling me at our meeting the other day about your story, how your ancestors came to the United States in the 1640. and that you have, you can trace yourself back 11 generations, and you said the first seven generations, they were all men of God in your family line. Well, they were all ministers. They came to the new world for religious freedom. They were Baptists, and they had to leave England because they believed in water baptism,

and they came to Rhode Island in 1643, and they were radical men of God. They were men with strong voices, and they proclaimed Christ, and they preached the word to the Indians. They went to the frontier of society back then, and the fire of God was so heavy on them. The anointing was so heavy that they would go through towns and people would run from their cabins to receive Christ. It was incredible, and this is something recently that I found out about. But those generations, Eric, have been praying forward for the families that are,

are coming my family and my children and grandchildren. And I'm sure for you as well that men of God from ages past have been prayed for this generation. So we need to grab the baton and fight here in Jesus' name for the salvation of souls. Well, there's no doubt about it. And it's just interesting because then you were sharing how your father and grandfather and great-grandfather, they were men of business. They were not carrying on this. tradition. So you have seven generations of faithful men of God. And then suddenly you kind of come out of

nowhere and God touches you. You said you came to faith early on, but that you didn't know about the power of the Holy Spirit. So it was kind of, I assume, a kind of a drier Christianity. Well, I came to God when I was 19 in Africa as an anthropologist. And for 25 years, it was a dry life. I used to run to Bible studies at Yale and all the universities. And I said, where is the power? Where is the authority? Where is the boldness in these studies? And I would return to my wife.

And I said, I don't want to be like these men. I said, there must be something more. But I didn't know the depth. In 25 years after salvation, I heard a man of God speak, Eric. And he talked about the fullness of the gospel in a way that I had never heard. And he prayed for me, Eric. and I flew across the room and I was touched by the Holy Spirit and I have never changed since that moment. Boldness for the Word of God came on me, the authority of the word, the excitement of the power of God.

And I said it's been on me ever since and I just want to give it away today. Well, you told me this story about how you flew across the room. You say that pretty cavalierly. You flew across the room. I mean, it's rare that people see anything like this. You hear about it, but you felt this power that drove you across the room, and you were never the same. You know, that's not happening in your average Baptist church these days. I think you understand that.

Well, we're at a time for today, but I'm just so grateful to the Lord for reconnecting us. We have a lot more to talk about. We'll have you back to do that. Is there a website, Chaunce, where people can find you? Well, they can go to my medical website that is chonsiecrandall.com. Our foundation site, ministry site is on there, and they can look at that as well. All right, Dr. Chauncey Crandall. God bless you.

Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Blessings in Jesus' name. Hey there, folks. Before we let you go, uh, shut the doors. Lock him. Yeah, shut the door. No, before we let you go, I want to ask you a question.

The question is, have you given to food, the poor. You know that this is that time of the year. When we make an appeal, we ask you to help people. These are the poorest of the poor. The poorest of the poor. People in this world who literally cannot afford food, they can't feed their kids. They do not have access to clean drinking water. Think about that. Think about kids, girls usually walking for hours to get water, which is not clean. The whole story is like almost unbelievable. So food for the poor meets them where they are,

but food for the poor can't do anything for them without your help. So please give generously, make a commitment to do this. Go to metaxis talk.com. You can see the banner right there. It says give life. MetaxistalksTalk.com. $100 will feed a kid for a year. for a year. This is how far they can stretch your money. It's a great investment. $100 will feed a kid for a year and give them access to clean drinking water. This is just huge stuff. So I'm asking you please go to metaxis talk.com. You'll see the banner right there. If you'd rather give monthly, if that's easier for you. But it's important that we give back, that we do what we can. If you prefer to text, you can text Eric, E.RIC, to 51555.

Again, you can text Eric to 51555. You may have a phone nearby. You could do it right now. Text Eric to 5155. Please give there. And if you've already given, you can pick up your friend's phone and also text on their phone. Yes, text on their phone. Yeah.

And before I go, let me remind you about our friends at the Herzog Foundation. This is one of these great things that there's so many people getting involved in homeschooling in Christ-centered K-3-2. 12 education. If you are interested in figuring out, what do I do with my kids? What about my grandkids? What are they getting for school? Go to Herzog Foundation.com. If your child came home from public school today and thinks they're a horse, maybe look

these guys out. Maybe they identify as a horse or as a kitty cat or as something other than what they actually are. Yes, maybe you might consider at that point Christ-centered K-12 education, might consider homeschooling. If you're considering any of those things, you need to check out the Hertzog Foundation. Hertzog Foundation.com. Hertzog Foundation.com. These guys are heroes. They want to help you do what you probably want to do. Hertzog Foundation.com. And they've done a lot of work, so if you're just venturing into the decision-making process on how to educate your

kids with this new alternative way to go, it makes it a lot easier. Herzog Foundation.com. And don't forget our friends at Americans for Prosperity. They're America's largest grassroots organization. They're out there every day fighting for you. What's their goal? To reignite the American dream. That's all.

To reignite the American dream, their priorities are simple. Secure the border and inflation. Make energy more affordable. And AFP gets results the old-fashioned way through grassroots activism. That involves us, folks. They bring like-minded conservatives together, turning them, turning us into a grassroots army, defeating the left's terrible big government agenda in the states and in Washington, D.C. That's where you come in with the media, celebrities, and universities stacked against us.

It's the grassroots that will help us win. Please find an Americans for Prosperity chapter in your state. Get in the fight. Go to AmericansforProsperity.org. And you can also find out more at SecureBorder, SecureAmerica.com. That's secure border, secure america.com. Do not forget to follow us on social media. You can find me at ericmetaxis.com.

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