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Aug. 4, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Sermon 007 - Galatians 5 - Walk in the spirit by cleaning up your food, medicine and home life
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Welcome to today's sermon.
I am Mike Adams and we are continuing with 100 sermons in 100 days to share the Word of God in a practical manner so that those of us who are facing uncertain times can be more prepared, spiritually prepared and also philosophically ready in understanding the pathway that is meant for us because what's coming for us will be incredibly challenging and I believe that Today's
sermon is from Galatians.
And we're going to delve into the very wise words of Paul in his letter to the Galatians.
Of course, this concerns the question of whether non-Jewish Christians are true Christians, or do those who practice Christian faith, must they go through all of the rituals that are laid out in the Torah,
the rules of the And as Paul expertly argues, and by the way, I always find it fascinating to read these books and ancient scrolls just rich in the ancient language and rich in sort of over-describing examples and almost,
I would say today, over-arguing points that, in my perspective, are relatively simple.
It seems to me, in fact, that the entire book of Galatians could have been argued in about one page.
And if I were to make that argument or to summarize what Paul was arguing, it's very I mean, I guess I could do it in one paragraph.
And I would say that following the rituals of the Torah does not make you a Jew, nor does it make you a Christian.
Just going through the motions doesn't mean anything.
What matters is your faith in Jesus the Messiah.
The rituals can be followed or not.
It's actually completely irrelevant and even the original rituals of the Torah were only originally described as being temporary anyway.
It's not going through the motions.
Any group of people can circumcise children.
It doesn't make them people of faith, by the way.
The act doesn't make you a person of faith.
And if you are a person of faith, having been set free by Jesus the Messiah, then those rituals are inconsequential.
So that's my summary of it.
And Paul argues that with great mental force or spiritual force.
And he says many important things that we're going to go through here, especially in, what is it, chapter 5.
We're going to go through verses 19 through 26 and talk about what it means to be unclean.
Because the term unclean, of course, appears in many places throughout the Bible.
In fact, I was just doing a little bit of research before this sermon and found it in Leviticus 10.
So, you know...
Old school here.
It says, and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane and between the unclean and the clean.
So, of course, just citing that, we don't have the full context of that quote, and that's not the focus of today.
But in Leviticus, as you may recall, they were teaching about physical cleanliness and You know, don't eat rotten meat and don't eat from bowls that had rotten food in them, you know, things like that.
And if someone is sick, you know, isolate them so that they don't afflict others and these kinds of things.
But there's also a theme throughout the Bible, both Old and New Testament, of unclean having a spiritual component.
And this is what Paul speaks to.
Now, as you know, with my teachings here kind of adding to this, I also consider uncleanliness to include in the modern day contamination with pesticides and herbicides.
And I'm talking about synthetic chemicals that did not exist in the day of the Old Testament.
These are relatively recent inventions by mankind that are agents of death, molecules of death.
Pesticide means to kill a pest.
Herbicide means to kill plants.
So herbicides are engineered to kill plants such as glyphosate or atrazine.
And I believe that if glyphosate existed in the time of the Bible...
That in both the Old Testament and New Testament, God and Jesus would have railed against glyphosate.
They would have, at least this is my interpretation, they might have labeled it something like Satan's molecule.
This destroys the root of plant life and it afflicts everything that is based in photosynthesis.
And so glyphosate is a contaminant which Which threatens life on earth, threatens the cycle of life, and it makes you unclean if you consume it.
But there are also many other things that make you unclean, such as heavy metals, and as we spoke about in previous sermons, there are microplastics in the air, and of course there are toxic prescription medications, including toxic so-called vaccines,
as well as the molecules of serpents, Actual venom peptides that are used in medicine and agriculture and cosmetics or personal care products that are licensed to manufacturers to create those products that poison you or poison plants in different ways.
And so there are a great many examples of unclean substances that are in foods and so-called medicines and in the environment and in the air and in the cities and in new furniture, off-gassing, formaldehyde residues and all kinds of things.
And of course, none of that is mentioned in the Bible by name because those chemicals or those materials did not exist at that time.
But the fundamental principle is still the same.
Now, I want to back up here and just go through the beginning of Galatians just to get you a flavor of the language if you haven't read it recently.
So this is from Paul, the apostle, and he's speaking to the churches of Galatia, and he begins it, you know, grace to you and peace from God.
Basically, in Texas we say, howdy, y'all.
That's what Paul says.
Howdy, y'all.
How y'all doing?
And I want to say something today.
And then he goes on to criticize them for...
Turning away from the fundamental pillar of faith in Christ and becoming persuaded to adopt the Torah rituals such as circumcision.
He says, this is in verse 6, I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel, which is not another, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
What are you doing?
Why are you turning away from Christ so quickly?
Why are you going back and embracing these ancient world ritualistic traditions which are really no longer necessary?
Because we have the new world under Christ and Christ died for your sins and Christ actually fulfilled the requirements of the old Torah.
Christ Fulfilled the demands of the rituals so that you don't have to, in other words, is one way to think of that.
And Paul doesn't hold back.
This is why I really admire Paul's words and wisdom.
He just preaches it as it is.
In verse 9, he says, As we have said before, now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Ha ha ha.
He's not holding back.
And I love verse 10.
He says, He's saying, is it our job to appease people or to serve the will of God?
He goes on and says, He's, of course, saying, check your loyalties, check your priorities.
Why are you going back to the old school rituals here to please the men of the Torah?
When Christ is upon us now, we are in the era of Christ.
You don't have to go back and do that.
In fact, it's kind of contradictory to the freedom that Christ has delivered to all of us.
Paul speaks to the transformative power of Christ and how Christ lives within each and every one of us who accept him.
This is in chapter 2, verse 20.
This is a very powerful verse.
This is after he's talking about all the travels that he's done, all the people he's spoken to, and how he's seen many of the Jews nitpicking on the Gentiles.
It just seems so trivial.
But in verse 20 here, he says, I have been crucified with Christ.
This is a really powerful passage.
He says, I have been crucified with Christ because in his travels, the way he was treated was in many ways parallel to the way Christ was treated.
He says, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
Wow, powerful.
And the life which I now live in the flesh is I live by faith in the Son of God.
Wow.
Who loved me and gave himself for me.
So what he's speaking about here is that through Christ's sacrifice, we are no longer merely the old human people that we used to be.
Now we are bonded with the Spirit of Christ working through us.
And as we accept him, As we live by faith, as he says, in the Son of God, then it is that expression of faith alone that qualifies us to walk with God and blesses us with God's presence in our lives.
And we no longer have to complete ancient things.
Monotonous rituals that perhaps were once appropriate in order to expose the sin of the Israelites, for example, because the Israelites are very accomplished sinners who repeatedly turned against God, repeatedly violated the covenants with God, and repeatedly had to be reminded of the horrible things that they had done against God.
But that now, today, in the Christ era, if we accept Christ into our lives, we have transcended beyond that age of ritualistic reminders of Israel's sin.
At least that's how I interpret it.
And Paul goes on to say in verse 21, I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
Now, what does he mean by that?
He means that if following rituals and rules delivers righteousness, then what was the point of Christ dying for our sins?
You see, he's...
He's arguing this point.
It's kind of a straw man argument, right?
He's saying, well, come on, Galatians.
If you can achieve enlightenment and closeness with God just by circumcising, then why does anybody need to have faith in Christ?
Or why does anybody need to follow the teachings of Christ?
Or why does anyone need to live a life of morality and ethics and And honesty and all these other properties that come in the next chapter 2 or chapter 5.
So this makes a lot of sense to me.
It's like you do not earn the blessing of God in your life by simply completing rituals and tasks and rules from the ancient Torah.
The presence of Christ in our world has transcended that requirement.
And then in chapter 3, Paul calls the Galatians fools.
And this is really amazing.
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?
Right?
He's talking about the sorcerer's spell of deception over the minds of the Galatians.
Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?
Right?
He's like, didn't you see that Christ died on the cross?
Like, open your eyes, you fools, right?
He continues, this only I want to learn from you.
Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
Are you so foolish?
I mean, so just backing up here, did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?
He's saying, did God's Spirit Was it invited and moving through you because you completed tasks of the Torah?
Or by the witnessing and the presence of Christ and faith in your life?
See?
And then he goes on, are you so foolish having begun in the spirit?
Are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
It's almost like he's saying, do you think that you can get close to God by cutting off the foreskins of a sufficient number of baby boys?
I mean, it's so crazy, right?
It almost sounds like some kind of, I don't know, I mean, today in our society we're dealing with the whole transgenderism debate.
We're mostly godless people, those who despise God, are pushing genital mutilations, which I'm not saying that's the same as circumcision, but it is far more extreme in our time to mutilate, to turn a baby boy into a baby girl, or to try to.
I mean, it's impossible to achieve that, and it mutilates the child.
And yet that is being done today.
That's being done in the name of progress and in the name of inclusivity.
Imagine what Paul would have said about that if, well, if he were alive today or if genital mutilations were taking place in his day.
What would he have said?
He would have unleashed far beyond anything we're reading in Galatians, that's for sure.
But he goes on, he says, he says, God working through you.
Is this because you checked off the checkboxes of the procedural requirements of the rule of the law, the laws of the Torah?
Or is it something greater than that?
Is it the embracing of faith?
And then he says something very profound, very profound.
And this speaks to the much larger concept of the church, the Christian church, the multi-ethnic embracing of all those who would accept Christ into their lives.
He says, therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham and the Scripture.
This is important.
Foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith.
The non-Jews would also be accepted as faith.
In other words, he continues, So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
So says Paul.
That's Galatians chapter 3 verse 9.
So here, Paul is reminding the members of the Galatians churches that God's blessings are not to be limited to one ethnic group.
That God's blessings are not just for Jews and not just for the Israelites, but rather for all of God's children, no matter where they are, no matter who they are, all over the planet, which is something that, of course, we teach today.
In our organization and in our teachings that every life has value in the eyes of God.
Every ethnicity has value.
Every child, every man and woman, every retired person, every senior citizen, every person of every skin color, every faith, every country of origin, every language, every human being has value in And is an expression of the divine creation of God.
And that is something that has been strangely forgotten by many ethnic groups.
Some ethnic groups that currently practice ethnic supremacy, believing that they alone have the message from God or the authority from God to determine who lives or dies in our time.
But that stands in contradiction to the teachings of God and Christ and Paul, by the way.
I think Paul, again, if he were to comment on our present time, he would use much stronger words than what you're seeing here, and he would be absolutely outraged at the idea that any one group would claim a monopoly over God's authority.
And there's a passage in this chapter, Galatians 3, that is a little bit tricky to kind of unpack.
And it starts with verse 15.
So it's 15 through 18.
I'll read it, see if we can unpack it a little bit.
He's talking about the rules of the old Torah.
Yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
Now to Abraham and his seed, his offspring, were the promises made.
He does not say, and two seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your seed, who is Christ.
And so this is Paul arguing about the lineage leading to Christ and that the original promises made to Abraham also apply to He continues, In other words,
what he's saying is that these rules of the Torah, these rituals of the Torah, these do not nullify God's original promise to Abraham and his seed or your seed, who is Christ.
And in verse 18 he continues, So the way I see this, my interpretation is that the matters of the law and the mechanisms of the law and the rules of the Torah are rendered obsolete by the original promise of God to Abraham,
which is So, then Paul speaks to this.
He asks, what purpose then does the law serve?
Why were these old rules written down and why were they to be followed so strictly in the first place?
What was that all about?
And he says, basically it's because the Israelites sinned so much against God that somebody had to keep them in check.
He says, quote, it was added because of transgressions.
Now, a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
So, also, again, remember this is old language, and it's been translated, obviously.
So, This is a little bit difficult to unpack, but the way I see this is the old rules were put in place, like I said, because of all the violations of the covenant and the sins against God carried out by the Israelites and also obviously so many generations of offspring of Abraham that these rules were necessary until Christ came.
That's what it's saying here.
That when Christ comes and Christ fulfills the obligations to God that are demanded by many of those rituals and various apologies and sacrifices and all kinds of things that have different forms, and when Christ dies for your sins, then now Christ frees humanity and when Christ dies for your sins, then now Christ frees humanity to live in a world without the burdens placed upon the people through the old rules
And Paul speaks to the ability of Christ to unleash freedom across humanity with this passage, verse 22.
But the Scripture has confined all under sin, he says.
He's talking about the Old Testament, the old rules.
The Scripture confined everybody under sin.
That the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe, but before faith came, he says, we were kept under guard by the law.
You see what he's saying?
That it was all the rules and everything that kept everybody confined and under sin.
Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.
But after faith has come, he says, we are no longer under a tutor.
So in other words, if I could put it this way, he's saying that the ancient Israelites behaved like petulant children and We're not people of faith, did not have good properties.
They were not honest.
You know, they were not good people for the most part, although, of course, there were exceptions.
And therefore, they needed to be really put on a leash through a system of rules.
And when Christ came, Christ was able to unleash all mankind and set us free to choose a different path.
And then I love this verse 26 through 29.
Again, this is so rich.
I love this.
I love this entire book.
Passage 26, verse 26.
For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
So it means it is your faith that makes you the son of God.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ, means you have embraced the spirit of Christ in your life, There is neither Jew nor Greek, he says.
In other words, it doesn't matter from which ethnic background you come.
There is neither slave nor free, he says.
It doesn't matter if you were rich or poor or a slave.
There is neither male nor female, he says, meaning it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman.
For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
The thing that binds us is the faith in Christ.
And if you are Christ's Then you are Abraham's seed, he says, and heirs.
You are heirs according to the promise.
That is the promise that God made to Abraham long ago.
The original covenant with Abraham that you shall be blessed, you shall lead a great nation, your people shall flourish and prosper forever.
And although, of course, that's not what happened immediately, you know, after Abraham kind of got things going, it all turned horribly wrong.
Hence, the rules of the Torah, you know, hence the punishments by God, hence the wrath of God, and so on.
And then coming around, you know, ultimately leading to the emergence of Christ, you To say, we're going to have to have a better example for all you humans.
We're going to need to give you an example of God embodied in human form.
So we give you Jesus Christ.
Try to live like Christ, would you please?
That's kind of the message in a nutshell there.
From God.
And then, beautifully, in chapter 4, again, this is Galatians, so Galatians 4, verse 8, Paul reminds people to be free.
Basically, this is Paul saying, I red-pilled all y'all.
Again, I'm speaking a little bit of Texan there.
I red-pilled all y'all.
Why do you want to be slaves again?
Okay, here's how he asks.
He says, in verse 8, but then, indeed, when you did not know God...
You serve those which by nature are not gods.
He's like, you know, you were serving the government and you were serving man and the rules of man and the bureaucracy and the rules of the church that are, again, transformed today.
They are transcended today.
So he's saying you were serving all those other things, but now after you have known God, Or, rather, are known by God.
He asks, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you desire again to be in bondage?
He's like, again, hey all y'all, I showed you the path to freedom.
Why do you still want to be a slave?
See, that's the question.
You observe days and months and seasons and years, he says.
I'm afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
Basically, he's saying, you've had time to figure this out.
You've watched the coming and going of the seasons and time and the crops.
And what are you doing?
What are you waiting for?
Is what he's asking.
What are you waiting for?
Brethren, he says, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you.
You have not injured me at all.
You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.
And by trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus, he says.
What then was the blessing you enjoyed?
For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
He's sort of teasing them for being, you know, overactively enthusiastic that they would have done anything.
Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth, he says?
He's like, how did you turn so quickly against me when I'm now revealing the truth to you?
Now we're going to skip ahead to chapter 5 of Galatians because he goes into a lot of other arguments and basically telling the people how foolish they have been.
But he encourages them to do the right thing.
He says, In other words, understand what Christ did for you.
Why are you not now living in that path?
Why are you choosing to live in bondage?
It's like, you should celebrate this freedom that Christ has delivered to you.
He says, You know, what are you doing?
Circumcision is not the pathway, you know, to enlightenment and salvation.
He says, Pretty harsh words, right?
For we, through the Spirit, eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, he says.
By faith, not by circumcision.
You can't use a scalpel to cut your way to faith, is what he's saying.
I mean...
And if he could say for God's sake, he would have added that too.
For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, he says, but faith working through love.
Understand that?
Right?
Powerful, powerful words from this man.
Can you feel it?
I feel like this so many times in my life where I'm working to share a very important principle with people like, why aren't you choosing freedom?
It's right there.
It's right there.
You can simply make a choice.
Why aren't you choosing health?
Why aren't you choosing abundance?
Like, you know, if you're at the grocery store and you're shopping for laundry detergent, you can choose a brand that's full of cancer-causing chemicals and fragrance molecules, right?
Rooted in essentially a Luciferian worldview of artificial fragrance and death, or sitting right next to it, There's a different detergent that's fragrance-free, that's more eco-friendly, that's not harsh, doesn't contain cancer-causing chemicals, or you could just use like borax and baking soda, you know what I mean?
You can make a simple choice, and often the choice, it's right there in front of you.
It's right there.
And I feel, you know, the spirit of Paul...
Reaching out to people, almost like shaking them awake, like, come on, open your eyes.
Why don't you just make the choice?
It's right there.
Just look at it.
And this is so true in every area of your life.
You can choose financial freedom versus financial enslavement.
You can choose freedom of speech versus self-censorship.
You can choose to live a life of disease prevention through natural herbs, superfoods, nutrition, supplements, sprouts, home gardening, so many other things.
Or you can choose to live a life of processed foods and pharmaceuticals and doctor visits and health insurance payments.
And the choice is right there.
It's right there at every grocery store.
You can choose the fresh produce that has all the healing molecules, all the anti-cancer nutrients, everything's right there in the store.
Or you can go to the processed food aisles and you can choose all the foods and toxic concoctions of ingredients that cause diabetes and heart disease and Alzheimer's and constipation and everything else.
The choice is right there in front of you.
Why are you choosing to be enslaved?
Especially given that Christ has died for our sins and he has given us the most blessed cosmic opportunity to live out our lives free from the burden of sin that he took upon himself so that we don't have to.
So you don't have to suffer through that.
You don't have to go through the rituals.
You don't have to pay penance to God for the sins that you've committed in your life.
You are free to reform yourself right now to change your mind and change your future and to experience abundance.
To experience the great gifts of life.
In fact, in verse 22 here in Galatians 5, this is what Paul speaks to.
He says the fruit of the Spirit is, and I love this passage, love, joy, peace.
He says long-suffering, he means the ending of suffering.
Kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
And he goes on, he says, against such there is no law.
And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
In other words, those have been surrendered and sacrificed away because Christ already processed all those sins and has paid the debt on those sins.
Paul goes on, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Right?
He's like, you say you're a person of faith, so act like it, y'all.
It's so simple sometimes.
It's like, you say you're a person of faith?
Okay, great.
Like, you go to church every Sunday, and you pray, and you sing, and you read scripture?
Okay.
Why do you go home and eat toxic, satanic poisons?
Right?
Right?
Isn't that what Paul is saying, in essence, if translated into modern times?
Again, verse 25 here, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let your actions reflect the alignment that you have in your heart.
If you are in alignment with Christ and you are fully expressing the liberty and freedom that He created for you, that He unleashed for you, then embrace that and make the decisions in your day-to-day acts.
That will create the most joyful, the most abundant, the most healthful future for you and those people around you.
And Paul reminds us, 26, let us not become conceited, provoking one another or envying one another.
Now, there's more to chapter 5.
I skipped a couple things, and I want to read that to you here.
And I love it when...
The word liberty appears, and I'm reading the New King James Version, by the way.
So, of course, translations may vary, but it says in verse 13 of this chapter, Galatians 5,"...for you, brethren, have been called to liberty, only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh." But through love, serve one another.
So he's saying, look, Christ died to give you this era of freedom and liberty.
And what are you going to do with this liberty?
Are you going to go out and just, I don't know, have sex orgies or pursue material wealth and buy yourself a, I don't know, a yacht, a boat, I don't know, luxury jet skis and hookers.
I mean, I don't know.
What people do?
But that's all wrong.
It's all wrong.
He says, use this liberty to serve, well, through love, serve one another.
So it's like, wow, you have freedom.
What are you going to do with it?
Well, you have the freedom to express love through others.
You have the freedom to share with others.
You have the freedom to uplift others.
You have the freedom to share the truth of the Word of God with others.
And yes, you also, apparently, you know, because of free will and free choice, there is technically the freedom for people to go off and sin and do horrible things and waste their life away and waste the blessings of Christ.
And sadly, a great many people do that.
But those are fools.
Anybody who does that is foolish.
You've been given the greatest gifts, the gift of life from God, the gift of freedom from Christ, His sacrifice and His sins.
These gifts are cosmically valuable.
You can't put a price on them.
There's nothing as valuable as these gifts.
You have life.
You have freedom.
You have free will.
You have consciousness.
You have, I mean, you're alive.
You're living in this time.
You, you see the world through your eyes and you hear it through your ears and you can affect the world through your hands and through your words and through your mind.
What are you going to do with that?
And he says, if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
If you are walking with Christ and you are fulfilling what Christ and God want for you, then you are not restricted by some ancient rules and rituals.
You don't have to be circumcised.
You don't have to follow those.
You don't even have to go to a church, by the way, to walk with Christ.
You don't have to.
You don't have to celebrate the same days in the same ways as everybody else.
Those things are not the Spirit of Christ.
It's a personal relationship.
Now, granted, it's wonderful when you can share that experience in community with others in your church because the role of the church at the community level is very, very powerful, very supportive.
But it is not a prerequisite to being blessed by God and having the Spirit of Christ come.
life.
It's not a prerequisite.
Now then finally, Paul gives warnings about the ways that people can be led astray.
And he talks about, do not be consumed by the lust of the flesh.
And he says, for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.
And these are contrary But in verse 19 specifically, he gives a whole list, and this gets to the uncleanliness that I mentioned at the very beginning.
He says, now the works of the flesh are evident, which are, and he makes a list, all right?
These are a list of things not to do.
Adultery, fornication, uncleanliness, lewdness, and uncleanliness, This is in the context of sexual behaviors.
So I'm not going to go into biological detail, but you can figure it out.
Idolatry, he says.
Sorcery.
That's a powerful word.
We need to talk about that more in another sermon.
Hatred.
Contentions.
Jealousies.
Outbursts of wrath.
Selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, basically every Friday night when you were a teenager, and the like, he says, and which I tell you beforehand...
Don't wake up with your face in the gutter having vomited on you and your friends.
Oh, wait a minute.
That's not in the scripture.
He says, of which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in the time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Now, but think about this.
Have you ever committed any of these things?
Have you ever been swept into feelings of jealousy?
Outbursts of wrath?
Selfish ambitions?
Lewdness?
Have you publicly exposed yourself somewhere?
I saw a video recently of some woman in Europe who lost her mind and just stripped naked in an airport and was screaming, I think, in Spanish for every person in the airport to fornicate with her.
And it was truly bizarre.
It was like a demonic possession.
And it's like this woman, I don't know her name or who she is, whatever, but she was completely nude from the waist down, and it's like she was acting out this entire list that Paul warns us about.
It was like, wow, if you could put a video, like a meme, to Galatians 5, verse 19, it would be this woman in the airport, which we shall not, obviously, show you that video here because it's too lewd.
I love how Paul gives you very specific warnings and saying that if you practice those things, you will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But then he gives you, in the following verse, which I already read, the map, the pathway to inheriting the kingdom of God.
Again, the Spirit is love, joy, peace, the ending of suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
And then to say, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not become conceited.
Provoking one another or envying one another.
And there we go.
The wisdom of Paul, in essence, berating many of the members of the churches of Galatia to say, what are you doing?
You're acting like fools.
You don't need to go through these old rules and rituals.
That does not bring you closer to Christ.
You need to embrace the spirit of Christ and walk in that spirit.
And when you do that, all those old actions and rituals are irrelevant.
So I invite you then, number one, you may want to go back and read this.
It's a lot to unpack, but I thoroughly enjoy it.
The ancient way of speaking.
I like the richness.
I always, I smile at how sort of in the ancient times that someone making an argument would have to make it five different ways and they would have to give so many examples.
Whereas today, I think because our attention spans are much shorter, we would sort of summarize that very quickly.
It's like, hey, stop acting a fool.
You know, it's just, you got your freedom, do something with it.
But back then, it was this long, drawn-out thing.
I'm always amused by that, but there's a lot of wisdom in it as well.
And you can learn a lot from this, but the takeaway is that in our practical world right now, in our time, that remember, Christ has given you freedom, and it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
And based on what you do with it, you shall either inherit the kingdom of God, or you shall be banished from the kingdom of God.
It's very clear.
And you can live a life of joy, abundance, health, prosperity, And those choices involve obviously being healthy, avoiding toxic chemicals, avoiding substances that are abused in modern society, drugs and alcohol and what have you, avoiding addictions, gambling and sex addictions and, well, I already mentioned substances.
What are other addictions?
Whatever addictions are unhealthy.
So Practice living in alignment with your faith.
Make better decisions each and every day.
Detoxify your life.
Drink clean water.
Don't be afraid to sweat because sweating is detoxification.
And let your decisions and actions when it comes to food and water and superfoods or supplements or the things you put on your skin, let that also reflect the purity that you are seeking in your spiritual life because those two things go hand in hand.
They go together.
You cannot achieve spiritual purity if your blood is polluted with all kinds of toxic chemicals, whether it's too much alcohol or cocaine or all kinds of herbicides and pesticides.
You need purity of blood in order to walk in alignment with purity of spirit.
You can't abandon one and hope to achieve the other.
They go hand in hand.
And these kinds of teachings are all throughout the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New.
And part of my goal here with these sermons is to share this message with you, a message that I find lacking in the modern-day church, like shockingly lacking, lacking so much that I feel like I might need to talk to some of the churches the way Paul talked to the Galatians to say, why are you feeding your congregations all these toxic foods and snacks?
Why do you have donuts after the church service?
Why do you have toxic products at the church buffet?
You've got to clean up.
Clean up your food.
I talked about fragrance chemicals.
You've got to get all the toxic chemicals out of your laundry.
Out of the clothes that you're wearing.
You've got to purify the things that you're taking in.
And if I were to speak to some of the mainstream churches today, I would say, look, you're preaching the Word of God, but your congregation hasn't heard the truth about how to follow that in terms of purity.
You've got to purify the blood.
You've got to get rid of the toxins.
And that message is dearly lacking in the church today.
Dearly lacking.
I'm not aware of anybody else even talking about that, except, well, I have seen a couple of books about herbs in the Bible, you know, or essential oils in the Bible, which I will be talking about in upcoming sermons.
But I've never heard of a mainstream church teaching people to clean up their lives.
And isn't that wild?
I mean, isn't that wild?
It's like, yeah, okay, we get it.
You shouldn't run around engaging in adultery and fornication and lewdness and sodomy and all this other stuff.
But you're eating pesticides, herbicides, glyphosate, heavy metals, plasticizers, gender bender chemicals.
You're putting all these toxic cancer-causing chemicals on your body.
You know, filth is not just lewd sexual acts.
Filth is also in all of these satanic death molecules that people, they go out and they buy them.
They buy them in the skin lotions and the shampoos and the deodorants.
And the toxic products they put on themselves every day, laundry detergent, everything else, they bring the filth into their bathrooms.
Just because you're not engaged in adultery and lewdness and public fornication doesn't mean that you don't have a lot of toxicity in your body.
It could come from personal care products, toxic medications, toxic foods.
And we have to pay attention to that sector.
It's the missing piece of the puzzle of modern Christianity as far as I see it.
And again, that's part of the reason why I've decided to do these 100 sermons.
And I appreciate you listening to today's sermon.
I hope you find value in it.
I will be producing 100 sermons in 100 days.
And each one with an important lesson.
Most of them not as long as this one, by the way.
I'm actually aiming for 30 minutes, and so far I have not yet achieved only 30 minutes.
But, I mean, I get into Scripture, and it's just, it's so fascinating to me.
It's so rich with wisdom, especially, you know, when you read the Word of Paul here.
It's like, can I get more?
This is awesome.
Love that guy.
Yeah.
Wouldn't it have been amazing to know these people in their own time?
But we can know them now through their words and through the Bible, through Scripture, and that's a blessing.
So thank you for listening to this sermon today.
There's a lot more where this one came from.
I'm Mike Adams, and if you'd like to hear more sermons, then, of course, go to the same place where you found this one, and there will be a new one each day until we get to 100 days.
And then, well, who knows?
We'll see.
Until then, God bless you.
Thank you for listening.
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