The War for Your Mind (Part 2) Ready Minded || Dr Eric Walsh

So let's let's let's start with our

scripture reading for this afternoon

session. Matthew 24.

Um we're going to read one and two and

then we'll get into the story of it. The

Bible says, "And Jesus went out and

departed from the temple.

And his disciples came to him for to

show him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, see ye not all

these things. Verily I say unto you,

there shall not be left here one stone

upon another that shall not be thrown

down." Let's pray. Father God, we thank

you for this opportunity to study your

word. We thank you for um your

wonderful, beautiful Sabbath day today.

Lord, we ask now, Lord, that you just

lead us into truth by the power of your

Holy Ghost. It's our prayer in Jesus

name. Amen.

>> Amen.

>> All right. So, the talk, we'll come back

to those verses in a second, is

ready-minded. And we, how do we have

make sure we have the kind of mind that

is ready for what's about to happen in

the world? So, we read already that the

disciples were shocked. Jesus in Matthew

chapter 23, Jesus had um gone into the

temple. Remember, he thrown out the

money changers and um he said to them,

you leave your house unto you desolate.

This blew the disciples minds because

the disciples were thinking, wait a

minute, he's going to be the king of

Israel. How can he say that the temple

is desolate? So, they started to panic

and then they follow Jesus. They, you

know, they're following Jesus and they

ask him, you know, how is this going to

happen? as we'll see in a second. But

just to give you an idea, that's what

the temple looked like in Jesus' day.

Prophetically, one of the things

happening right now that is very

relevant is that there is a move to try

and build a third temple in Israel.

We'll come back to that. But this is

based on a false interpretation of

biblical prophecy. And here's the

interesting thing is it helps drive a

good chunk of American foreign policy.

So, it's an interesting tidbit that is

based on the false doctrine that some

believe there's going to be a secret

rapture one day. Not biblical, but they

believe in order for that to happen, the

antichrist has to exist in the rebuilt

third temple. It's the weirdest

doctrine. So, the antichrist has to be

in the temple. Dr. Tony Evans from right

here in Dallas, I think he just stepped

away from ministry from what I was

reading. Um, no, he wasn't restored.

He's restored, but he's not running the

church is what I just read. So, um

really nothing to do with what I'm

saying. He I don't want to be I don't

want to be chos here. Um so, but he what

he said is what he said years ago is

that out of that third temple, which

will not I don't believe is biblically

prophetically accurate. Jesus will one

day reign for a thousand years and force

the world to keep his commandments. Tony

Evans, I heard him preach that years

ago.

But let me say this. Do we need a third

temple?

>> Because where is Christ now?

>> Heavenly temple.

>> In the heavenly temple. And he is there

now interceding on our behalf. If you

read the book of Hebrews, it is very

plain. Any work. What would an earthly

temple do? Would you take a bull and

kill it and put it on all? What good

would it do when Christ has brought as

Hebrews says his own blood into the most

holy place? Amen.

>> So

>> what good is the blood of calves or

lambs going to do you when the blood of

Christ is in the heavenly sanctuary?

>> Anyway, that's that's that's one of the

things that do. So if you did if you go

to Israel, I've been Israel. This is all

that's really left. And it's not even

this is not from the original. This is

not from Herod's temple or Solomon's

temple. This is what the Ottomans

actually built. The Turks when they

ruled they built this. So this is not

actually just like Jesus said every you

know he he prophesied here every stone

would be torn down every stor stone was

torn down and was never rebuilt

>> and Satan wants so bad to build this

thing back up but we'll see what happens

sometimes I think well maybe he builds

it up right before the close of

probation but we'll see Matthew 24:3 and

as he sat upon the mount of olives the

disciples came unto him privately saying

tell us when shall these things be and

what shall be the sign of your coming

and of the end of the world. So the

disciples ask the questions your

neighbors are going to ask.

We've had people our our our real that

we sold I think we just sold our house

in Connecticut. He was a once an

orthodox Jew, really good guy. Um now

he's an atheist. Really doesn't want

anything to do with God. Two years ago

when October 7th happened, he called me

and said, "You got to tell me what this

means." Now he knows the only

perspective I'm going to give him is a

biblical one. Yet when when the when the

when you know when the chaos of the

world was high enough he said listen you

know let me turn to someone who might be

able to give me an answer from the

scripture. So we have to be able to

answer this question. So the disciples

asked when will the end of the world be.

Here's Jesus's response and this is

where this connects back to the frontal

lobe.

Verse four. And Jesus answered and said

unto them take heed that no man

>> deceive you. I said it this morning. We

are living in an age of deception. The

word for deceive there, that's the

Hebrew word. It's pronounced plano. It

means to be led away into error. Jesus,

before he gives one prophecy about the

end of the world or what's going to

happen to Israel or the temple, the

first thing out of Jesus' mouth is

listen, don't be fooled.

And so many are being fooled now. In one

of my recent service, I told a story

how, you know, they have these AI things

now. So, you don't even know when you

watching like you get like something on

social media and it you don't know if

it's real or not anymore. I mean, I saw

this thing and this big bird of prey

came down and grabbed the baby cub lion

and the big bird of prey was taking off

at the lion baby cub and the lion

lioness start running and she jumped way

up in the sky and grabbed the bird. I'm

cheering for the lioness. Get him. Get

him. Then at the end you find out it's

fake.

There's no lion, no lioness, no cub, no

bird, nothing. It's just some dude

sitting in a room somewhere telling chat

GPT or somebody what to do. The the

ability to deceive us

>> today is astronomically greater than

anything the disciples could have even

imagined. So we have got to have sharp

minds to make it through these last

days.

So verse four, and Jesus answered and

said unto them, take heed that no man

deceive you. Why? Because many will come

in my name, saying, I am Christ and do

what?

>> Said and deceive many. So there is going

to be a not just plain oldfashioned

deception, false Christs, false

messiahs, people leading people in a

certain direction. So, I I I I when I do

this full thing, I I have a lot of

these, but I'll give you just a few. The

guy on the left there is um Yahweh Ben

Yahweh. He's a black American from

Miami. If you go back to the '9s, he was

worshiped as God.

Literally worshiped him as God. They

even had a whole dance they did today

hip-hop music to this guy. You see the

guy in the middle there? He's Puerto

Rican. Um that's I forget his full name.

>> Jose.

>> Yeah. Here you see it here. Jose Jesus

Miranda that's his that's his name and

look how he was worshiped as God he had

people saying he was Jesus then he

switched to 666 and Lady Tat I said boy

that's crazy of course here in Texas

Waco Texas is famous for um David Cares

and the Devidians but Sunyong Moon was

also worshiped all of these were false

Christ some of you may even remember and

I sometimes have slides on this um the

guy from San Francisco um D um Jim

Jones.

I mean, Jim Jones led all those people

all the way to Guyana and them all and

and had all those people put to death.

>> It was prophesied that this would

happen, but it's not just there. Um, one

of the interesting points is this one.

This is um and again, when I do a full

music talk, I get into this a lot

deeper, but this is a guy named Kendrick

Lamar. I'm gonna come back to him.

Notice what is he wearing on his head?

A crown of thorns. Isn't that

interesting? He's the guy who did the

Super Bowl last year. Now, I don't know

about you, and I grew up listening to

rap music. I couldn't understand one

word he said. I didn't know what he was

saying. I said, "He just talking,

rapping, and it don't it's just blending

like bad macaroni and cheese. I don't

know what he's saying, right?" But I and

some of these I have the slides of Kanye

West and Nas, all these rappers

pretending to be Jesus. What a lot of

people don't know about hip-hop, rap

music, and unless you come from the

Northeast, specifically from New York,

you you may not know that actually rap

music, hip-hop music is born out of a

religion in large part. The name of that

religion is the 5% Nation of Islam. So

if you don't know that that's old school

rappers like Big Daddy Kain, the poor

righteous teachers, famous rappers like

the Wuang Clan that were big, you know,

I don't know who's big now, but I know

Jay-Z is still a 5enter. I would have to

believe he was a 5enter back then. The

5% nation teaches that the black man is

God and the white man is the devil. Did

you know that? So when, and here's

what's funny. When rap music started

selling, GUESS WHO BOUGHT ALL THE

ALBUMS? It was the white kids in the

suburbs. There would be there would be

no hip-hop today if the records didn't

sell in the suburbs. Anybody know

anything about hip-hop knows that that's

how hip-hop actually raise money. It is

based on a false and demonic doctrine.

That's why the rappers are so vain,

profane. They skirt all rules and laws

because many of them, not all of them,

but many of them believe that they are

inherently divine. That's why Jay-Z has

a song where he says, "I am Jehovah,

God, MC."

So all of that is prophesied by Jesus.

But Jesus goes on to talk about the end

time. Jesus says in verse 6, "And you

shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.

See that you be not troubled, for all

these things must come to pass, but

what?

>> The end is not yet." One of the good

things Jesus does for us in Matthew 24

is he lets us know war is not the way

the world is going to end.

>> Somebody ought to say amen.

>> So when these wars come up and people

panic, I remember when the Ukraine war

started, people started to panic. I was

able to say from the scripture, listen,

this is not going to start a a nuclear

third world war that ends the earth

because my Jesus told me war is going to

come but the end is not yet.

So you can see war in the world today.

Now now the current administration

Donald Trump is I mean I if if if

everything they say on both sides is

true he stopped a lot of wars. In fact

this week we just saw um and hopefully

it holds a ceasefire um in the Middle

East. So you can see on the left there

were people in the streets chanting

Donald Trump's name begging that he gets

the um the the Nobel Prize. And on the

on the other even in Gaza, they were

chanting his name and saying he should

get the the Nobel Prize. You can see the

people returning to um on the right you

can see the people returning to Gaza

from the to the north of Gaza, from the

south of Gaza. This is serious. It's

big. It speaks to what we talked about

before, this false idea of the prophetic

relevance of Israel.

And you'll see that that is one of the

things that's going to keep happening.

And unless your frontal lobe is sharp,

you won't get it. This is after Israel

got bombed by Iran. I just left that

picture in there. But of course, in

America, you forget about the Middle

East. Right here, we have a war.

>> These are these are mass shootings in

the United States. This is up till 2020.

There was a mass shooting after midnight

last night in I think it's Mississippi.

Four dead. I don't know how many

survived it. But you see this keep

happening, happening, happening,

happening. Um in other parts of the

world, people stabbed. It's you mass

stabbings. They've had those in places

like China and in Europe. At the end of

the day, something has shifted in the

world or the world is very violent. And

if you remember in Matthew 24, Jesus

says, "As it was in the days of Noah,

the hallmark of the days of Noah is that

the flood came because of their

violence."

So when you see these increases in mass

shootings, like we've seen these high

rates of these things, you know that

Jesus going to come. Now, let me throw

this in in case I forget to say it

later. One of the things that we I was

with Neil Nedley. Many of you have heard

of Neil Nedley up at Weimar, brilliant

physician, and we were talking offline a

little bit about these mass shootings.

And he said something profound. He said

he thinks that you can connect uh the

high use of marijuana with these mass

shootings.

Now, marijuana, so alcohol can make you

suicidal. It can make you homicidal. Um

you know, most drugs will make you kind

of more likely to hurt somebody else.

But marijuana can make you nihilistic

where you just want to kill everyone.

And obviously that's not the majority of

people who smoke marijuana. It's

probably a very small number. But

there's this connection that the media

is not talking about. We'll see if it

ever comes out in the media. So then

Jesus switches from the wars and he

says, "For nation shall rise against

nation and kingdom against kingdom and

pestilence uh there shall be famines and

pestilences and earthquakes in diverse

places." Then Jesus says in verse 8, to

me one of the most startling verses in

all of the Bible, after all the stuff he

described, that's some bad stuff.

Earthquakes, pestilence, terrible

famines. He says it's just the beginning

of sorrows.

Why do you need a frontal lobe that's

clear? Why do you need to be anchored in

Christ? Because what is coming, Daniel

tells us, is a time of trouble like has

never been.

>> Something is about to happen. And unless

you're watching what's going on, you're

going to be lost. The first one here,

verse seven, the verse seven starts with

for nation shall rise against nation.

Well, nation rising against nation goes

back to the Greek word for e uh um

ethnos. The Greek word ethnos, which

translates in English or we take it as

the word ethnicity. Jesus predicts that

as you get closer to the end of time,

you're going to have more division along

tribal lines, ethnic lines, language

lines, racial lines. people are going to

fracture. Here's one of the reasons I

believe one of the signs of the remnant

church is found in this statement. By

this men will know that you are my

disciples because you have what? Love

one for another. One of the key signs of

the church in the last days is going to

be what we saw here today. People that

look from all over the world who don't

necessarily look alike, but they believe

alike.

>> Amen.

>> They have one Christ. Nothing else

matters. you will not make it. And so

this what what the devil has done a

great job of is literally making putting

culture over Christ,

>> patriotism over purity. The devil has

done a amazing job with and people are

fractioning up and they don't realize

you there will be no my family's

Jamaican so I use JAMA THERE'LL BE NO

JAMAICAN SECTION IN HEAVEN.

>> I believe they'll have a trees. I do

believe that and bread fruit but I don't

believe there's going to be a Jamaican

section. You get my point? When we GET

TO GLORY, NOBODY'S GOING TO CARE WHERE

YOU CAME FROM on earth.

>> Now, they say Spanish is the language of

heaven. We'll wait and see.

But if it is, at least I'll be fluent

then.

I'll be speaking in speaking in an

unknown tongue. All right. So, what else

did Jesus say? Well, he said that there

would be famine. World hunger continues

to rem. Why is this fulfilled prophecy?

Because we have the ability for no one

in the world to be hungry. We could

easily feed the whole world right now

without even costing anyone anything.

>> It's a fulfillment of prophecy.

Pestilence. COVID was a pestilence.

There are lots of pestilence when I do

talks on on on intimacy, love, and

relationships. Sexually transmitted

diseases have skyrocketed.

We almost got rid of syphilis in the

2000s. Today we have congenital syphilis

back again. Babies are being born with

syphilis again. Like this was the 50s or

60s. It I mean everything has gone the

opposite direction. I warn young people.

I say you be careful what you do. They

got diseases now that we still have not

fully figured out. Did you know that we

have emerging sexually transmitted

diseases? I tell I joke all the time in

my service about this doctor. I was

working in Bakersfield, California going

to Vegas for the weekend and the man is

like, "Oh, save me some rosphan for when

I get back." And one of the nurses like,

"Oh, you're nasty." He said, "Oh, don't

mind. What happens in Vegas stays in

Vegas." I said, "Not herpes, brother.

That stuff that comes back with you.

Pestilences,

earthquakes in diverse places." And

somebody said, "Well, you know, they've

always had lots of earthquakes and you

can, but there's something about deadly

and destructive earthquakes that is

different." And this is from the US

Geological Survey. It shows that. So

people are, you know, these earthquakes

are more are frequent. They're all over

the place just as Jesus says. Then he

says, "These are the beginning of

sorrow." I just watched a video of an

earthquake in Philippines just recently.

Frightening mercy,

>> man. I mean, you know, I I was I

remember being in California when I

first moved out there. Was working at

Lom Melinda Hospital. I was up on the

top floor doing oncology and there's an

earthquake and the whole building

>> just they put it on some kind of I don't

know they put on a swing a rocker. We're

just I'm I'm in the room like this the

clock on the they had like a pendulum

plus swinging. I said man I need to get

back to the east coast. This is crazy.

We going to fall off into the ocean out

here.

All right. Here's what Ellen White says

on this. Signs of his soon coming. Luke

uh 212526.

Uh uh now this is from Luke 1. And there

shall be signs in the sun and in the

moon and in the stars and upon the earth

distress of nations with perplexity, the

seas and the wave the sea and the waves

roaring men's hearts failing them for

fear and for looking after those things

which are coming on the earth. For the

powers of heaven shall be shaken. These

prophecies have been fulfilled.

>> The stars fell remember in in the 1800s

and the 1700s the the the uh late 1700s.

We and if you go to Heritage and Hope,

they actually have the newspapers where

the people talked about the day when the

sun darkened and the moon turned to

blood and all this. These the there is

perfect evidence that this has happened.

The Bible says men's hearts failing them

for fear. What is the number one killer

in America?

>> Heart disease. What is the number one

reason someone visits a doctor? Anxiety.

All in the verse.

>> Right. And then there's here's where

Ellen White says, "The nations are in

unrest. Times of perplexity are upon us.

Men's hearts are failing them for fear

of the things that are coming upon the

earth. Look at this. But those who

believe in God will hear his voice amid

the storm saying, "It is I. Be not

afraid."

>> If you really are connected to Christ,

the more chaotic the world becomes, the

more confident you become that he's

coming for you. Amen.

>> If you really are connected with Christ

and these crazy things happen, you don't

panic and go into fear. I told you that

turns off your frontal lobe in faith.

You hear the voice of Jesus saying,

"That's all right. This turbulence has

to happen, but I'm about to land a

plane."

>> So

without a functioning frontal lobe, you

will not hear his voice.

You will not hear his voice if you don't

have a functioning frontal lobe, which

is what we talked about this morning.

So, Satan attacks the mind. How does he

I'm going try and go through this a lot

here quick, but we're going to go

through a few quick things. He attacks

the mind. One of the major things, and I

wish the young people are here, I know

they have Pathfinders, is marijuana,

alcohol, and drugs.

Texas has not legalized recreational

marijuana. And I would imagine after

living here for a few months, it'll be a

long while before Texas does. But you go

up north and out [snorts] west and it's

ubiquitous. Those dispensaries are the

size of the church. I mean, some of them

are massive. And what they've done is

and marijuana is probably one of the

biggest threats. Let me let me say it

clearly. People have they got into CO

and the COVID response. And while all

that was going on, they were just

legalizing recreational marijuana all

over the country. Nothing is a bigger

threat to the to the public health of

the United States of America, especially

its young people, than the legalization

of recreational marijuana because it

causes new diseases. It does some

strange things. So, this is an um a

graph of the percentage of

tetrahydrokinabonoid and CBD in cannabis

samples. So, they they they they get the

cannabis um they look at it and they

test it. The marijuana that Bob Marley

and Bob Dylan smoked was about 3% THC.

For those of you who know who those two

people are. And today, this shows 16. We

have samples of of of marijuana now

where the THC is over 30%.

10 times the percentage points. Why is

that relevant? Because nowhere in human

history has anyone ever smoked or

consumed marijuana with that much THC.

in the history of the world. How did

they do it? Well, they said out of it

was social this why social justice don't

always know is what you cracked up to

be. They said for social justice

reasons. We need to legalize this cuz

all these minority kids are going to

prison for marijuana. Well, they didn't

tell you they could decriminalize it

without legalizing it. That's the first

lie. They wanted it legal, right? And so

what they did is they said that now

listen now those kids don't make any

money off of big who's making it. Big

corporations are making a fortune off of

marijuana. And like just like street

drug dealers, it's the same thing. If

you you know, I grew up with some some

dope boys in Miami. When they sell

drugs, they want to sell the most potent

version of it so you keep coming back.

>> That's what they've done with

recreational marijuana. They've made the

most potent version ever so that you got

to keep coming back for it.

>> So everything you thought you knew about

marijuana, forget it because it's 30% or

more tetrahedro tetrahydrokinabonoid.

Now what have we seen? We've seen new

diseases like cannabis induced hyper

emmesis where they can't stop throwing

up. Cannabis induced psychosis where

people just snapped into a psychotic

break. One boy ate a brownie too fast

and jumped to his death out of a hotel

window.

So we know now that this is and and and

so many young people they they they're

they're vaping it. They're doing the

edibles. They're you it's not just that

they smoke it now. You know, there's all

these different ways to take it. But one

of the things marijuana does is it

changes and I'll skip that and just go

here. It changes literally

um the way that your dopamine receptor

works. Marijuana is a gateway drug

because cocaine, amphetamines, alcohol

will flood the synaptic space between

the presinaptic neuron and the

postsaptic neuron with all of this

dopamine. So you get high. That's how

you get high. There's overrelease. If

you eat food, you release just a little

bit. You have sex, you release a lot

more than food, but still a controlled

amount. You do cocaine and all of these

empty. That's why cocaine is so

addicting. Marijuana does. It releases

more dopamine, but it messes with the

receptors down here, making them more

sensitive. So that when you try cocaine,

it's even more pleasurable to you than

it would have been. But it does

something else. This changes your

ability to experience normal everyday

pleasure.

So you move into a there's a condition

we now describe with marijuana called

amotivotivational syndrome. The young

person loses all motivation to do well

in life because

their dopamine system is all fried. All

messed up. And here's the thing, it

blocks GABA release. So So the other the

other drug I talk about, this is um this

is um frequent marijuana use uh may be

related to risky decision-making in

young adults. We now know that if you

want kids to make bad decisions or take

risky decisions, get them smoking

marijuana. But they don't just smoke

marijuana. It's not the way it works.

They do it with alcohol. So here it is.

There's no This is the World Health

Organization. There is no safe level of

alcohol consumption. Somebody said that

like a hundred something years ago. I

forget who it was. Oh, IT WAS ELLEN

WHITE. SHE SAID IT.

AND ALL these people have been telling

you all through the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000,

oh a little wine is good for you. Have a

little wine at dinner. Now they said

even if you just drink one drink or two

drinks a week, it increases your risk of

cancer. Ain't that interesting? Took all

them years. Now they said, yeah, now now

they, you know, it all lines up.

But the chemical, like I mentioned this

morning, that inhibits bad behavior and

helps you to be self-controlled and be

temperate is the chemical GABA.

GABA is actually blocked by not just

marijuana and is also blocked by by

alcohol. So, I don't have time to get

deep into this. It's not a drug talk,

but I want to mention this because we're

talking about the frontal lobe, but

Snoop Dogg had a song a long time ago,

and I don't know how Snoop's so popular.

I I I I'm lost. I watched him on the

Olympics. I said this I I don't

understand. But then I remembered Snoop

made a song a long time ago called

Murder is the case. And if you go back

and just you just read the lyrics, you

can watch the music video on YouTube,

but you just read the lyrics so you

don't have to watch it. He sells his

soul to the devil in the record.

No qu I mean I challenge you to go look

at it. Nah, don't go look at it, but you

can read it. He sells his soul to the

devil.

No wonder then he's pushing jin and

juice. And him and Dre actually came out

with a drink, a actual jin and juice

drink. But he talks about smoking endo

with it, which is marijuana. What we now

know is when you mix alcohol and

marijuana, you completely become

disinhibited and you can totally change

a person, really damage the frontal

lobe, but in the moment the person can

be dangerous. I say this every time,

almost every time I preach on this, I

say it. I asked was when I was working

with the Bloods and the Crips. Our

church worked with them and my job in

Pasadena, we worked with him and I asked

with him, "How do you do a driveby

shooting? How do you just go to somebody

and just shoot up a house? You don't

even know who's inside." He said, "A 40

and a blunt.

You drink alcohol and smoke weed and you

be surp You should be surprised what you

can do."

Cuz he said, "My grandmother raised me

better than this." Now, all right, let's

get out of drugs. Let's go to TV. The

bigger drug, right? So, one of the

things that will damage the frontal lobe

is television. And television is known

to make you we've been in church a we've

been talking about this since I was a

kid way back in the day. But what the

science is really catching up, it's not

just a movie. How television shapes our

brains. Television puts us in a hypnotic

state. This is not a church publication.

What does that mean for us? So when you

watch TV, you go into a hypnotic state.

And you know this because you can watch

a 2-hour movie. If you've ever watched a

2-hour movie that you really enjoyed, it

went by like this. That is the sign that

you're in a hypnotic state. Football,

you know, sports sometimes can do that.

Um except that they have commercials.

But you know, the movies are just

smooth. Watching television alters

children's brain structure and does

what? Lowers IQ. So, did you know that

if you just want to one of the way there

are two things you can look at on most

kids to predict school performance. One

of them is how many hours of television

they watch a week. The second one is how

many hours of sleep they get a week. If

you look at the kids who perform the

worst, they're going to be the highest

in TV and the lowest in sleep. And you

throw in social media as a new third, it

also works like TV works. So, um, here

here's another article.

Too much too much TV may be bad for your

long-term brain health. People who watch

large amounts of television in midlife

experience greater cognitive declines in

their senior years. That's that's crazy.

So, when you can just come home from

work and relax and watch TV, it actually

sets you up to have more dementia-like

symptoms later in life. That's how bad

the effect of television. And again, not

this is not Christian publication or

Ellen White. This is just what they

found. New study suggests that too much

TV really can rot your brain. And Ellen

White says it like this. She says

manuscript 63, if they talk darkness,

they have darkness in abundance. What

does she say next? By beholding, we

become changed into the same image.

That's what happens as we watch stuff we

shouldn't watch. So there's mirror

neurons in the brain. Um and we you know

we know that these are clinically very

relevant and we discovered these mirror

neurons in the brain studying monkeys. I

won't take long here but so the they had

the monkey hold a banana. They scanned

the monkeyy's brain and this part of the

brain lit up. Then the handler of the

monkey held the banana and the same part

of the brain lit up. They started doing

the research and what they realized when

you watch someone do something even on a

screen there's a part of your brain that

thinks you're doing it.

So when you watch all that violence on

television,

and again, everybody's different. So

there are people who are going to have,

you know, good protective measures.

They're never going to act out what they

see. But there going to be other people

who can't help themselves and will act

out what they see. Or in a time of

stress or great depression, they will

then act out what they've seen. So

here's the kicker because I'm not going

to talk about it in this talk. What does

pornography do then?

It is a complete destruction of the

mind. When I when I do the talks on

pornography, we talk about how

pornography actually shrinks the human

brain. Did you know that the brain of a

hero of a of a porn addicted person is

the same looks the same as the brain of

someone on heroin

damages especially the frontal lobe. Of

course, it does all the damage it does

to later life. So all these young boys

are watching porn because of cell

phones. The average age that kids sees

porn now is like 11 or 12 years of age.

So, when I was growing up, if I mean,

you'd have to go to a store or steal

somebody's or something. And if you

brought one of them magazines into my

mother's house, woo boy. I mean, I can't

even imagine what would happen. I would

never even try. You'd have been whooped

with the magazine before she burned the

magazine. [snorts]

My point is, it's easy to get now. And

it's in a in it in forms that are far

more dangerous than the magazines.

And this is one of the ways the devil is

attacking the frontal lobe, especially

of young men. In some of my sermons, I I

showed a study where they said 70% of

men, Christian men in America, of all

denominations, and 40% of women are

regular porn watchers or consumers.

Here's the scary part. The majority of

the people in church who use pornography

are perfectly fine with using it.

meaning they no longer pricricked by the

Holy Spirit that watching pornography is

wrong.

This is the damage to the frontal lobe.

And of course, Hollywood is all over

this. Um, you know, Hollywood is from a

tree, the Holly tree. And you remember

Merlin's magic wand was made out of

Hollywood. So, Hollywood, California is

really Satan's magic wand. It's designed

to get you to hate God. And I have a

whole thing I do on this. I just took

out this one. This is um the Simpsons TV

show. Some of you have heard of it. One

of the kids, Bart Simpson, is asked to

thank God for a meal. He says, "Dear

God, we paid for all this stuff

ourselves, so thanks for nothing."

[snorts]

So, let me ask you, what happens when

your four-year-old, 6-year-old,

8-year-old, 10year-old, 11year-old

watches this? You're trying to get them

to love the Lord and they see this.

Remember that when they're watching

television, they're in a semi-hypnotic

state. So these messages are will

actually penetrate and affect them more

than the sermon they hear in church

because in church they're not in the

hypnotic state. They might fall asleep

but they're not in a hypnotic state.

Right? And so Jesus when when he was

dealing with the demoniac boy in Mark 9,

he asked the father, "How long is it ago

since this came unto him?" The father of

the child responds since he was a child.

So we know from the Bible the devil

wants to get our children, right? So,

this is why when you look at um all of

this stuff, it's it's geared towards

you. I thought Dora the Explorer was

trying to teach you Spanish. No, she

teaching you all kind of witchcraft and

voodoo, all kinds of stuff. I mean, you

look it up. I mean, it's all mixed in

there. Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse is,

you know, he one of his first great

things from way back in the 50s is

Fantasia. If you watch that on you, you

can go back on YouTube and watch it. He

Mickey Mouse murdered someone in the

shadow realm.

as he does all this magic. This is how

the stuff started. I've talked when I

talk about love and marriage, how Walt

Disney said, "Listen to your Walt Disney

himself said, you know, your heart

whispers, so listen carefully." And then

they Disney has the whole thing, follow

your heart. And Ernesto de la Cruz from

the show Coco, he says, "The the world

may follow the rules." Ernesto de la

Cruz says, "I will follow my heart." But

you know what Jeremiah says? The heart

is desperately wicked.

Do you really want to follow that?

Right. So they Hollywood and the frontal

lobe. So they got Harry Potter came out

and everybody was bragging about all

these kids reading these books and

nobody ever asked A TOUGH QUESTION. WHY

IS a kid reading a book this thick?

Probably because there's a spell on the

book, right? And so everybody was all

excited. But those are real spells. Um

you know that real witches do. And it is

why now in America we know that there is

a rapidly closing American churches.

Churches are closing but they're

overshadowed by the meteoric rise in

witchcraft.

Witchcraft has come. And this is also

prophecy. We It was prophesied that

spiritualism will be one of the big

things in the last days. And it's

because a lot of people don't know the

Bible. Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 6 says, "For

the living know that they shall die, but

the dead know not anything. Neither have

they anymore a reward. For the memory of

them is what?

>> Forgotten." They don't have any memory.

Also, their love and their hatred, their

envy is now perished. Neither have they

any more portioned forever in anything

that is done under the sun. Can you be

haunted by a dead person?

>> No. If you're haunted, who's haunting

you?

>> A demon. Dead people are dead. They have

no consciousness according to the

scripture. But the witchcraft connects

us and and again I wish I had more time.

But when you look at where they done now

they move to these ghost shows, these

where they really go and try and find

them. Um ghost hunters and stuff. What

TV channel do they put them on? Sci-fi.

They want you to believe that

scientifically they can prove ghosts but

scientifically they can't prove God.

They want you an atheist who believes in

ghosts and aliens. I talked to one guy

who said, "You know, I don't believe in

God. there's no God. And I said, "What?

But then how do you explain it?" We

started talking about evolution and I

was explaining to him, "It doesn't

really make sense. Take the Bombader

Beetle for example. There's no way that

could have evolved." We're talking

talking. HE SAID, "THAT'S ALL RIGHT. I

understand. We're in England actually on

a on a train." And the man said, "The

aliens came and started the world." I

said, "Wait a minute. You don't believe

in God, but you believe ET came down

here and started the world?"

So, who made ET?

When you watch television and you get

into this hypnotic state, one of the

thing TV does is it opens your mind to

the supernatural.

>> When I was in when I was in Sabbath

school as a kid at Faith 7th Day

Adventist Church in Hartford,

Connecticut, I remember one of our um

Sabbath school teachers telling us that

um there was a TV show back then called

Fantasy Island.

She told us way back then that that show

was actually created for Seventh Day

Adventists

>> to get Seventh Day Adventist to believe

things they don't otherwise believe.

Now, I was just a little kid. I don't

know if what she was saying is true. I

do know that when you go back and look

at what they talked about, bafflement

appears on the show. All kinds of stuff

appears on the show that is consistent

with being antithetical to what we

believe.

One of them, of course, being the dead

know nothing. You can't visit the dead.

The dead can't visit you. So, what is

our earth in the in the Marvel

multiverse? And everybody loves Marvel

and they keep pushing out. In Marvel,

it's 616. The Earth that all these

characters exist in is called Earth 616.

Now, I found this interesting. I put

this in my talks on Black Panther

because Black Panther movie came out,

everybody went crazy. Here it is. The

guy who in who said that Marvel's Earth

is 616 says this. Thorp states he came

up with a number through numerology of

which he was a student at the time to

get the earth 616. He subtracted the

number 50 from the number 666.

A number tied to the Christian theology

to arrive at 616 as the home reality of

Marvel. So literally when you watch a

Marvel movie, you are watching Earth 666

minus 50. So what does 50 represent? It

comes from Alistister Crowley's do as

thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

When you watch Marvel, it is numerology.

That's why in Marvel universe, the great

protector is a red dragon. In the Bible,

who's the red dragon?

>> Is he a protector? Not the last time I

checked. He'll kill you where you stand

if he can. And I I mentioned Black

Panther because one of the things they

want to do is especially destroy the

faith of African-Americans.

A lot of people don't know the backbone

of the church in America for a long time

has been black people, especially black

women. and they they they want to wipe

out the black church. That's why you're

going to get so much more of the um

racial tension and it's going to seep

into the church. People are going to be

blind. I realize what's most important.

They're going to miss stuff. But one of

the ways it did it when Black Panther

came out, I know a church that rented

out the movie theater and the and all

the church went to go watch Black

Panther. Now, let me ask you a tough

question. So when you do crusade now in

evangelism and people come to your

church and you tell them the living know

that they shall die and the dead know

not anything. How you going to tell them

that? At the same time you paid for

people to go see this man on the screen

talk to his dead relatives.

>> You see how the devil is slick? I mean

BECAUSE WE'RE SO PROUD. OH, we got a

black superhero.

I don't want a black superhero. I want

Jesus.

>> And so they've they've gotten all of us

with this. This is more that this is the

post-Christian morality of wicked. So, I

when I was a kid, we saw um uh um um the

Wizard of Oz,

>> Lion King.

>> I never thought much about the Wizard of

Oz. I'll be honest with you. As a kid,

you know, whatever. But they took the

Wizard of Oz. What I didn't know at the

time is that the Wizard of Oz is a

represent the guy himself, the wizard

himself represents the god of heaven.

Once you understand that the whole show

starts to make sense that in fact and

I'm talking about the movie from back in

the 50s or 60s when you get to the

wizard he's a farce right he he he

really is just like a clunky old man

there that's what they're trying to say

about the god of heaven

>> that's literally the point of the movie

so when this movie came out I was

curious but I can't watch musicals cuz

I'm like first of all I don't watch

stuff like this anyway but musicals

drive me nuts why don't you just say it

stop singing all the time right take

make the movie take forever Here it is.

One of the most noteworthy theological

trends in the 21st century pop culture

has been the rehabilitation of the

villain. Watch this church. From Kruella

Deville to Maleficent to the Joker and

more, iconic villains are now routinely

given spin-off movies and sympathetic

backstories that complicate our

categories of good and evil. This has

dovetailed with the rise of the trauma

plot and a narrative fixation on how

destructive choices, let's just call it

sin, can be explained by past trauma. So

they've made the movie so that you you

look at this evil person and say, you

know what, they were traumatized as a

child. So what? They're a wicked evil

villain. I feel sorry for them now. I

can excuse their sin. That's basically

what they're trying to get you to do.

But let's look at what else the article

says. Giving villains origin stories is

intriguing, but I think this trend r

trends rise is also connected to the

post-Christian cultures confusion about

sin and evil, morality and justice. In

this world, the theological word sin has

been replaced by the psychological word

brokenness

and transcendent concepts of justice

have been replaced by oppressor

oppressed power dynamics.

The article says, "All this is on full

display in Wicked. Rather than being the

iconically despicable, nightmareinducing

character immortalized by Margaret

Hamilton's 1939 Wizard of Oz, the wicked

witch of the West is reconsidered in

Wicked as a good-natured,

well-intentioned outcast named Alaba,

who has been seriously misunderstood."

They say,

"It is interesting that the wizard is a

god proxy." This is what I was just

explaining. The wizard is a god proxy in

the film's world. Characters explain

things like, "Thank Oz uh and what in

the name of Oz." This deity turns out to

be manipulative, a manipulative,

selfserving, untrustworthy villain.

Religious mythology is exposed as a

convenient means of perpetuating human

power.

So Wicked is getting all these awards

and everybody like I think they're

coming out with a sequel because what

the devil is trying to do is actually

make you have sympathy for him. So he

made the TV show Lucifer

and in making the TV show Lucifer they

re they're rewriting the great

controversy.

Right? So let me give you an example of

this. If you if you you know I didn't

know people watch this show but people

do watch it. Here's from the wiki page

on the show Lucifer. When Michael was

battling Lucifer and Amanadil in the Los

Angeles Police Department, he unfurled,

opened up his wings prior to his

brothers and prepared to battle them at

full battle him at full strength. Using

the wings as weapons until God arrived

to halt the fighting, they then refurled

their wings. Look at this. During their

during the final battle with Lucifer to

decide who would be the next God. Can

Lucifer be the be God?

All right. Right there, you're wrong.

The brothers used their wings to battle

each other in the sky. After Michael was

defeated, Lucifer used a flaming sword

to sever Michael's wings, seeing it as a

preferable outcome to the fight to the

death Michael had wanted. Now, in the

Bible, who is Michael?

>> Jesus.

Do you see what they're doing? So, when

you go to witness to people and tell

them about the Lord, they actually going

to have the whole story backwards now.

And again, you're in a semi-hypnotic

state when you watch a show like I

didn't think Adventist my wife, we go

places and I talk about this show,

people come to me, "Oh, it's not that

bad." You know, we just watch it cuz

it's funny. It's funny.

>> I don't think that's funny at all.

Making Jesus into the laughing stock of

the show, making Jesus the bad guy.

How's that funny if you're a Christian?

Revelation 16 13- 14 says, "And I saw

three unclean spirits like frogs come

out of the mouth of the dragon and out

of the mouth of the beast and out of the

mouth of the false prophet." What are

these spirits? They are the spirits of

devils working miracles which go forth

to the kings of the earth and of the

whole world to gather them to the battle

of the great day God Almighty. There are

these spirits that have gone out unclean

spirits, spiritualism, in order to get

people to do what they want. And if

Satan has a a superpower of above all

his other powers, it's music. The Bible

in Ezekiel tells us that he was built

with pipes and tabts. He is a living

musical being. That's who he is. Some

argue he could sing. He can sing eight

part harmony by himself. Led the

heavenly host in the in their choir. He

is a musical uh uh uh person. And how

effective is music? Remember, music

bypasses the frontal lobe. We're talking

about the frontal lo this morning. Music

bypasses and enters into a different

part of the brain and affects you in a

way that you do not process the lyrics

to a song the way you would if someone

spoke them to you. And most of us know

how music affects you. Right? If you if

right now if you just start playing

music, a lot of us would start moving

even if we weren't listening to the

music really.

>> But it's deeper than that. A 2006 study

um from the journal pediatrics found

that 1500 they studied 1500 teenagers

and found that the teenagers who who

heavily listen to music featuring sexual

subject matter are more likely to start

having sex earlier than those who do not

by a margin of almost 2 to one. So if

you want to make a child corrupt, in

fact, the lyrics to some of these songs

have gotten so vile that some argue it

is child abuse for them to listen to

people like Megan Stallion and Cardi B

and there's another one, somebody like

Sabrina Carpenter or something. This so

sexually charged and of course the male

rappers and the male singers have been

like this for a long time. The women are

just kind of more coming around to it.

It is so sexually charged that it is

concepts being given to kids that the

kid can't understand.

Which is why they say in a sense it's

like a trauma.

And we now know from this study and

there are many others that are quoting

some of the other talks that it actually

can change the way a child behaves.

And so of course we was is music

spiritualism? Well, this book by Peter

Berbal, I've been talking about this

book for a long time. how the occult

saved rock and roll. And it basically

outlines the fact that in fact, yes, the

music industry was saved and propped up

because they brought in occultism,

right? And so when people get mad and

people get mad at me when I talk about

Taylor Swift, please don't hurt me. Let

me just I'm not going to say nothing but

read her own lyrics. She says in this in

this song, um, light me up. She says,

"They're burning all the witches, even

if you aren't one. They got their

pitchforks and proof, their receipts and

reasons. They're burning all the

witches, even if you aren't one. Then

look at what she says. So, light me up.

Light me up. Light me up. What is she

saying?

I ain't say it, but that's what she's

saying.

And I know that that's what she's saying

because she tweets this kind of stuff.

Here it is. You ever find yourself

waiting for the signal and meeting

someone after dark and happening upon a

majestic coven in the woods? Coven of

witches. Me neither. But do you want do

you want your something to make you feel

like that or I don't know what that bad

English is there. Then the willow

moonlight witch version is for you. She

said on Instagram about the moonlight

witch. Moonlight witch. Now if you're

not into witchcraft, would you make a

song named the moonlight witch? I

probably would never even come up with

an idea like that.

The point is these singers and I I

stopped showing this one but I brought I

resurrected it for y'all because we in

Texas. This is Beyonce's song, Church

Girl. Now look at what Beyonce says. And

no, now notice she's levitating. You

ever been to church? Somebody levitate.

If you go to church, someone levitate.

My advice to you is to get out of church

fast. Somebody's not floating around up

here. You might want to hit that back

door.

But you ain't going to get out there

faster than the brothers. They going

usually get out first. Out that back

door. Look at what she says. She says,

and she she's sampling the Clark sisters

gospel song, Centered in Your Will,

which they talk about being centered in

the will of God. Listen to what Beyonce

says. Ooh ooh, "I want to be centered. I

want to be centered in your will. I'm

warning everybody as soon as I get in

this party. I'm going to let go of this

body. I'm I'm going to love on me." Look

at what she says. Nobody can judge me

but me. Is that true? No. Judgment is

given to Christ. She says, "I was born

free. Bad girl acting naughty. Church

girl don't hurt nobody."

You You figure that one out yourself.

Here's the impact of it from a magazine

headlined for the article said Beyonce's

church girl has black Christian women

going that's me. So there's this idea

that you're going to be a Christian

woman at the same time you're going to

be in the party in the club showing out

and no one can judge you. Let me say

this. If you if you're a young person in

here, young adult even you cannot serve

God and Satan.

>> Amen. I see, you know, this is one of

the reason I'm not a big fan of the

sometimes we our churches we spend a lot

of money and have a big band playing in

church and I'm tell you I've been at

churches where the you can see the dudes

played the played the nightclub the

night before still got the stamp on

their hand from the nightclub and walk

straight in here to come play in God's

house.

>> You can you're not you're not supposed

to Bible says do not mix the holy with

the profane.

>> Right. So there's other artists my

friend um his daughter started listening

to someone named Billy Isish. Yeah, I

got heard of this young lady. I'd never

heard of her before. I talk about her

now, but at that time I hadn't heard of

her. And she had a song called All the

Good Girls Go to Hell. I mean, that says

enough to me. Well, I wouldn't listen to

her, but she look at some of her lyrics.

And I'm just going to give this one

thing. She says, this is the name of her

song here is a bury a friend. Step on

the glass, staple your tongue, bury a

friend, try to wake up, cannibal class,

killing the sun, bury a friend. Then she

says,"I want to end me."

Now in a time when we are watching

epidemic rates of selfutilization,

suicide, and young people, why would you

make a song like this? And I'm missing

something because our daughter showed me

that this word son here, she she looked

up the actual lyrics is supposed to be

spelled S O N. She's killing the son,

meaning Christ.

this. So my my pastor friend, he said

his daughter started listening to her

and she just totally changed. He's like,

"Look up this young. Who is this

person?" And I looked her up and I was I

was actually shocked. So then of course

you got people like Kanye West. Kanye

West, here he is with Common and he he

wrapped a long time. He said, "I sold my

soul to the devil. That's a crappy

deal." He said, "Um, at least it came

with a few toys like a Happy Meal."

Right? Then everybody said, "Well, no,

Kanye West is a Christian. He made a

gospel album called Jesus is King. Every

Kanye Christian. Now

the Bible says, "Judge not, but by their

fruit you shall know them." So here it

is. It says here, "Satan, this is the

Church of Satan's official Twitter."

Well, now X Satan is the best friend.

Kanye,

can you guys Satan is the best friend

Kanye has ever had as he will keep him

in business all these years.

The church of Satan said Kanye hasn't

left us.

And you can see by his behavior, the way

his now wife dresses. I mean, I have

pictures of Kanye West wearing his whole

face is covered in a black mask.

Doesn't even make any sense.

Here's the thing. You can't listen to

that and expect to be on God's side.

When he made Jesus as King, I just

didn't buy it. I just like this don't

make no sense. I saw him going Joel

Ostein here in Texas, Houston, and he

ran up there and rambled. It made no

sense.

I said, "That's a weird testimony. It

don't It doesn't make any sense what

he's saying.

But then the guy who really blew up now

is this guy

Kendrick Lamar. And in one of his

interludes, he has a song called Lucy.

And listen to him. Lucy is short for

who?

>> Lucifer. Listen to what he says. He

says, "My name is Lucy." Lucifer.

Kendrick. You introduce me. Kendrick.

Usually I don't do this, but I see you

and me, Kendrick. Lucy gives you no

worries. Lucifer is going to give you no

worries. Lucifer's got a million stories

about these rappers that I came after

when they was boring. So, he's going to

tell on all the other rappers and make

you be able to do better diss tracks,

which is what he's famous for. Lucy's

going to fill your pockets. Look at this

one. Lucy's going to move your mama out

of Compton inside the gigantic mansion

like I promised. So, the devil is

promising Kendrick Lamar all this stuff.

Then he says, "Lucy just wants your

trust and loyalty. Avoiding me? It's not

so easy. I'm at these functions

accordingly." Kendrick, Lucy, don't

slack a minute. Lucy work harder. Look

at this last line. Lucy's going to call

you. Even when Lucy knows you love your

father.

The devil says, "Listen, it don't matter

how much you say you love Jesus. I'm

going to keep calling you. I'm going to

keep promising you the things of this

world." He is now, I would argue, maybe

the biggest rapper right now. I don't

know. I'm not into rap anymore, but I

know he did the Super Bowl show last

year, so I know he's big. Here's what

the Bible says. 1st Samuel 15:23 says

this, "For rebellion is as the sin of

what?

>> Witchcraft."

Rebellion is as the sin of when you

rebel against God, it's like a sin of

witchcraft. That's why even as a church,

our church, again, it grieves me. I just

did a sermon on this at Linda. Grieves

me to see the people in the church

attacking each other, attacking the

church. It grieves me because if you're

rebelling against the remnant, what

spirit is making you do that? Amen.

>> So, just to make the point, here's Kanye

West's ex-wife and his daughter,

Northwest. So, his last name is West. He

named his daughter North. That says it

all, right? Um, so Kim Kardashian uses

mediums to talk to her late father and

he has a lot to say about Northwest. So,

they're trying to make Northwest a star,

the daughter, a music star. So, she

talks to the dead f is can she talk to

him? According to Bible, she can't talk

to him. So, who's she talking to? Who's

giving her advice on how to make her

daughter a superstar?

>> So, when you listen to them, who are you

really listening to?

Is your frontal lobe in the right place

to be able to deal with all of this

stuff? 1 Timothy 4:1-2 says, "Now the

spirit speaks expressly that in the

latter time some shall depart from the

faith, giving heed to seducing spirits

and doctrines of devils, speaking lies

and hypocrisy, having their conscience

seared with a hot iron." In the last

days,

some are going to depart from the faith,

church. It's happening. It's called a

shaking. And I see it happening all over

the place. I see people questioning our

fundamental beliefs, asking why is it

even important that we teach prophecy or

revelation or Daniel. You know what

Peter says about prophecy? He says there

is a more sure word of prophecy. Of

course, we teach prophecy. Prophecy is

one of the ways you know for a fact you

can trust the scripture. Study the 490

year prophets. Study the Dead Sea

Scrolls when we now know how old we now

know the book of Daniel is. We some

argue that recent study come out say the

book of Daniel from the Dead Sea Scrolls

probably dates almost all the way back

to the time of Daniel himself which

means those prophecies were written

hundreds of years before the birth of

Christ. Yet the 490ear prophecy

that last week that the evangelicals try

to take from the Jesuits and use

futurism and throw way out into the

future. That last week the Bible says in

the middle of that week the Messiah

would be cut off. That is exactly and

precisely the day and almost the hour

Jesus WAS CRUCIFIED. THAT PROPHECY TELLS

ME I CAN TRUST MY BIBLE.

But they don't want you studying it

anymore. They ain't want you listening

to music. Ecclesiastes 7:5 says, "It is

better to hear the rebuke of the wise

than for a man to hear the song of

fools."

Music is a trap. You got to be very

careful. It leaves you on course. Just a

couple slides on this one. Social media,

I'd be remiss if I didn't say something

about it. And one of the big things

besides the fact that it keeps kids up,

so they're not getting good sleep.

They're not doing good in school. It it

causes body dysmorphia with girls on

Instagram. The studies have come out

show that girls who are into this

actually see themselves as less

attractive and go into can go into bad

behaviors because of that. But one of

the big things that it's doing is it's

actually pushing so spiritualism. This

is uh witches of Instagram. How does

social media spread spiritual

spirituality, witchcraft, and pagan

movements? The big thing on Tik Tok is

called witch talk. Uh the rise of the

occult, and there are over 80 billion

views of this now, or or I don't know

how they do it, but the 80 billion

things about this. This is how they

training kids to be witches from a

distance.

They said they're going to do away with

Tik Tok. You know why they're not going

to do away with TikTok? You know why Tik

Tok will survive? because right now it's

probably Satan's number one tool for in

for indoctrinating young people into the

occult and witchcraft.

[snorts]

>> So

1 Corinthians 10 says verse 21, you

cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the

cup of devils. You cannot be partakers

of the Lord's table and the table of

devils. Do we provate provoke the Lord

to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

You can't you can't have it both ways.

We've got to make a decision today. And

that's where the frontal lobe is so

important. You got to make a decision

that you are going to follow God no

matter what. That's why Philippians 4:8

says, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever

things are true, whatsoever things are

honest, whatsoever things are just,

whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever

things are lovely, whatsoever things are

of a good report, if there be any

virtue, if there be any praise, do what?

>> Think on these things." Let me tell you

what what the advice I give people now.

I a lot of time I don't even listen to

Christian music in my car anymore unless

it's hymns or something. I listen to the

Bible. There's no excuse. I go on audio

verse. I can get the animated version of

the Bible and I can listen to the Bible.

I just I listened to to Exodus through

Joshua in just the last few weeks and

I'm on Judges now. I listen to Spirit of

Prophecy. I went back and listened again

to the story of redemption and the great

controversy recently. while you drive

around in your car, while you doing

chores, while you're at the gym, flood

your mind with the things of God. That

doesn't replace getting sitting down in

the Bible and studying hard. But when

you just I listen to the book of Psalms

through, man, you would go back and just

listen to the Psalm. It's so encouraging

just to hear them read the Psalms to

you. That's what we have to do. Then you

can get on audio verse and find other

good sources like that and listen to

really good sermons, uh, doctrinal

sermons. the men like Norman McNelte,

you want to learn about the book of

Daniel and Revelation, he has a great um

uh commentary he put on on those two

books, re listen to his sermons on it

and some of the things you think you

don't understand, you'll get full and

thorough understanding because guess

what? We can, you know, I used to tease

my brother all the time. I had to stop

cuz he got mad at me, but I used to

tease my brother cuz he's a big sports

fan and he could tell you every player

in the NCAA football. He can tell you

every player, NCAA basketball, every

player in the NFL, NBA, who won, what,

where, when, and how. I said, "David,

can you tell me the 12 disciples?"

I said, "If NCAA, they back then they

changed their teams every four years." I

said, "They ain't changed the disciples

in 2000.

Anything can become an idol.

Think on the things of God.

And finally, we are called

above all things, we are called to stand

for Christ.

>> And so we have to make a stand in the

first place. You're not going to make a

stand in public if you haven't made one

in private. I tell people now, if after

church you running straight to a

restaurant to have lunch, you think you

go this when the Sunday laws passed, you

didn't really value the Sabbath enough

to take the preparation day to make sure

you have food on Saturday. You think

when the time of trouble comes, you're

going to lose your income over this

thing. If you can't if you can't prepare

and take the Sabbath serious now, you

think all of a sudden you're going to be

like, "Okay, let me let me lose my job

and maybe my life for it when you're not

willing to give up a few hours for it

now."

And the Sabbath is not about legalism.

It's not that you keep the Sabbath to

save you. I keep the Sabbath BECAUSE

IT'S MY TIME WITH GOD.

IN A love relationship, you never get to

know the other person unless YOU HAVE

QUALITY TIME. THAT'S WHY the Sabbath is

instituted like MARRIAGE BEFORE sin

enters the world. That's how important

the SABBATH IS. SO, I I I CHALLENGE YOU.

LISTEN, ALL OF these things have to come

together. But we've got to make a

decision in our hearts that we are going

to stand for Christ in our private life

>> if we ever think we're going to stand

for him publicly.

Bible says, "And they love not their

lives unto death."

If you can't die to self, you ain't

going to die for God.

And we got to be asking God now. Lord,

help me to let go of these sins that so

easily beset me. If that's what you

want, I want you to just stand with me

if somebody

time is short and I don't want any of my

loved ones to be lost. And some of you

are in that same boat. We stand in the

gap for them today.

>> But also, some of us here are saying,

"Nah, I need to be closer to Jesus."

Let's pray. Father God, we thank you for

this opportunity to study your word. We

thank you, Lord, for your word and for

your truth. We thank you, Jesus, for

your kindness, your wonder, and your

patience, Lord. Lord, you are better to

us than we are to ourselves. So, we

thank you,

Father God. Right now, we claim your

promises. You say in Isaiah 49:25 that

you will contend with those who contend

with us and you will save our children.

>> Amen.

>> Some of us here, Lord, are praying for

our children right now. We're standing

in the gap for our kids.

You say in your word, Lord, in Mark nine

that if we can believe, all things are

possible to him that believes. We claim

that promise right now for our other

loved ones, co-workers, neighbors, maybe

it's even a spouse. Lord, right now in

the name of Jesus, we claim your blood

and your Holy Ghost power. We give the

Holy Spirit permission for him to go in

and work on the hearts of those we want

to reach, Lord. Well, Lord, we don't

want to pray for others when we

ourselves are not right.

>> So, Lord, I ask in a special way, Lord,

that we would begin, Lord, to be so

filled with the Holy Spirit that sin

would be detestable to us. We would turn

our hearts and minds to you. We would

live for Jesus. protect our frontal lobe

so that we can be sealed with the seal

of God. It's our prayer in Jesus's

precious and holy name that the church

say amen and amen. And you may be

seated.

>> Amen.

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