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Oct. 15, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Sermon #078 - Isaiah Ch 1 - God calls out the FAKE Christians and Jews...
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Welcome to today's sermon with the Church of Natural Abundance.
I'm Mike Adams, and the website is abundance.church.
And today we're going to be looking at Isaiah and asking the big question.
We're going to kind of depart for another sermon, depart from our normal focus on foods and nutrition and also end times and revelation and all that.
We're going to ask the question, are you just going through the motions of being a Christian?
Or are you a genuine Christian?
In other words, and I know this is brutal to ask, you won't hear any pastors saying this if they want to be popular and if they want to get a lot of donations.
But I'm going to ask the question that when you examine your behavior, and we'll go through some details here and we'll work on ways to improve it, Are there elements of your Christian faith that are just fake or just ritualistic and not really genuine?
If so, God says that doesn't count.
In fact, it annoys him.
And again, the popular megachurches who don't even teach the Word of God, all they want is more money.
They just want more donations.
And the way they get that is by telling people what they want to hear.
And what do most people want to hear?
They want to hear a pastor, an apparent pastor, tell them that their lifestyle, which is so ungodly, it's a contradiction of the teachings of God and Christ, but they want somebody to tell them from a church that, no, that's totally okay.
Yeah, don't worry.
That's all with Christ.
Yeah.
Oh, you're eating all these satanic molecules, pesticides and herbicides constantly and junk food, processed food.
You're not taking care of your health.
But to the megachurch, that's okay as long as you, you know, tithe enough money.
Make sure you show up.
Make sure you tithe.
Make sure you go through the rituals.
Make sure you sing the hymns.
Make sure you smile and be popular at the church.
And then the fact that you're destroying your body with satanic molecules, well, your pastor doesn't care about that.
In fact, those kind of churches, the pastor will often say that you should take the jab.
Yeah, inject yourself with Satan's vaccines because, of course, they will say that your body is It doesn't have an immune system.
Nope, you were born without an immune system.
Even though that's one of the gifts from God is that you were born with an immune system, these false pastors will say, you should take the jab because, you know, man's medicine is better than God's medicine or better than natural medicine.
You should take the jab.
And, oh, don't you dare...
Use something like vitamin C or zinc or vitamin D or ivermectin, which comes from soil microbes.
Ivermectin is actually a molecule from Mother Nature, i.e.
God.
And that's one of the reasons why they attacked it so viciously.
But they said, no, you have to take all these injections, these prescriptions, these mind-altering psychiatric drugs and wear a mask and lockdown and everything.
And don't listen to the actual God.
Just do what your pastor tells you, which is satanic.
And there are many other examples of that, of course.
And I'm talking about the mega churches, the big popular churches.
They don't teach the Bible anymore.
They certainly don't teach the book of Revelation, do they?
And they don't teach any parts of the Bible that we cover, do they?
Ha-ah.
And then there's a bunch of wicked Christian churches that try to make you feel good about genocide.
They say you have to applaud Israel no matter what Israel does, no matter who Israel bombs, killing women and children, bombing residential buildings, bombing hospitals, and raping children and raping prisoners.
Because that's what Israel does, and they brag about it.
And they have videos of these IDF soldiers and Israeli leaders, and they say, well, we are the chosen ones.
We can do that.
They don't even pretend they're not doing it.
They don't even apologize for it.
They just say, well, of course we did that.
We're the chosen ones.
God chose us.
We can carry out any act of evil that we want because we're the chosen ones.
And then these Christians in America say, yeah, that makes perfect sense to us.
Yeah, let's pretend to follow Christ, but actually let's support a nation that's committing genocide.
But we'll go to our church and we'll give a tithing and we'll sing the hymns and we'll smile.
We'll wear our perfume and our makeup and our fashion purses.
And for men, they will bow down to their women and be soy boys and be woke.
Oh my God!
And they'll be part of their woke DEI church.
And they'll think everything's okay.
And I'm here to tell you something different.
All those people are going to hell.
They're all going to hell, including the pastors, by the way.
There's one thing that we've come to discover together, if you've followed any of my sermons, we're almost up to number 80, by the way, coming up on 100 soon, is that throughout the Bible, God teaches what I call spiritual meritocracy.
God doesn't put up with excuses and God's not woke.
He's not DEI. God's not LGBT. He condemns all that stuff.
And He doesn't give you a bunch of excuses either.
He says you're either obedient to God, you know, be a good person, or you'll burn in hell.
It's really that simple.
And, you know, when Christ comes along, and then we have the New Testament, Christ comes along, He has a little bit more of a...
Let's bring the message of salvation to a broader spectrum of people, people of different nations, people of different religions and different skin colors and whatever.
And that's great.
That's great.
I'm all about including as many humans as possible in the teachings of Christ.
But understand that Christ did not contradict His Father, the Lord.
He did not contradict the Lord and say something crazy like, oh, but God, His standards no longer apply.
No, that He'll just compromise everything.
Don't worry about everything He said in the Old Testament.
It doesn't...
None of that matters anymore.
You can be wicked.
You can be evil.
You can be a deceiver.
You can be a mass fornicator.
You can be a liar.
You can be a molester.
You can be a trafficker, a slave trader, whatever.
It's all going to be fine.
He didn't say that.
No.
He said, look, we're going to focus on love and humanity, but you still have to obey the Lord.
And if you don't understand that, you don't understand what Christ was all about.
Now, interestingly, some of the apostles of Christ, following his teachings, said something that also Isaiah said in the Old Testament here, which we'll get to, which is that your rituals are bogus.
Your rituals are nonsense.
In fact, let's go to Isaiah chapter 1, verse 1, because this is very interesting.
The vision of Isaiah.
Okay, so these are God's words through the prophet Isaiah.
The son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
All right, I hope I got all those names correct.
Not that it really matters.
Even the people pronouncing them in English still have them all wrong because that's not how they're pronounced in their day, but whatever.
So here it is, the words of the Lord.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken.
I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Does this sound like a familiar theme?
This is what we hear over and over again.
God's unhappiness with the people turning against him, especially the Israelis over and over again.
Nothing has changed.
Verse 3, the ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know.
My people do not consider.
He's saying the Israelites are dumber than donkeys.
Because even they don't realize who their creator is.
Isn't that amazing?
Because they're so wicked and evil.
Verse 4, Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers.
That sounds like Netanyahu, sounds like Israel today.
Children who are corruptors, they have forsaken the Lord.
They have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel.
They have turned away backward.
Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick and the whole heart faints.
From the sole of the foot, even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
They have not been closed or bound up or soothed with ointment.
He's comparing Israel to the sickly body of a diseased person who hasn't been healed.
And it's an apt metaphor, and again, nothing has changed.
Look at Israel today, exactly the same.
Verse 7, he says, Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire.
Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers.
So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city?
I love how he throws cucumbers in there.
Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom.
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
And that's Tel Aviv today, by the way.
Sodom and Gomorrah on steroids.
Hear the word of the Lord.
You rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
You can hear in his voice, right?
You scumbags, basically is what he's saying.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me, says the Lord.
So he's saying, you know, you go through the rituals of sacrificing to me, but it means nothing because you're just evil and wicked people, all you Israelis.
That's what he's saying.
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams.
I mean, after all, how many burnt rams can anyone handle, right?
And the fat of fed cattle?
I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or goats.
Did you know, by the way, there are Jews in New York City that are murdering chickens in the streets right now?
It just happened recently.
Because I'm recording this around one of the Jewish holidays, and they buy chickens on the street, and then they circle them around over their heads or in front of their faces like lassos, and then they murder the chicken.
And they think that this transfers all their sins to the chicken.
And they murder the chicken.
And by the way, a lot of the sacrifices in the Old Testament, that's what they're supposed to symbolize.
Why are they murdering a bull?
Well, because they're told that all your sins, which are many, are transferred to the bull, and then you kill the bull, and then those sins are washed away.
That's a very odd way to make good for your sins, isn't it?
And even God says, you know, enough.
Stop killing all the bulls.
It's obviously not working.
You're not any better.
You're not better people.
And he continues in verse 11.
He says, I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or goats.
Verse 12, when you come to appear before me, who has required this from your hand to trample my courts?
Bring no more futile sacrifices.
Incense is an abomination to me.
Did you ever think he would say that?
No more incense.
Stop with all the burning of incense.
It's not, you're not good people.
Continuing, the new moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies.
I cannot endure iniquity in this sacred meeting.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates.
This is God.
This is God saying, I hate your stupid feasts.
Because what do people want to do?
Oh, they want to celebrate and have a feast and get all fattened up.
In the modern world, all this processed junk food.
And pretend that they're religious because you're getting all fat with a bunch of toxic processed food with satanic pesticide molecules in it on God's holiday.
That is an affront to God.
He says so here in Isaiah.
He says, Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates.
They are a trouble to me, and I am weary of bearing them.
You hear what he's saying here?
He's like, you wicked, evil people, just enough with all the rituals and all the incense and all the feasts and all the sacrifices.
You're just evil people.
And ultimately, we know what he does.
He unleashes the seven trumpets, which ends Israel.
Verse 15, when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
You hear what he's saying?
Even the prayers of the Israelis will go unanswered because God says you're too wicked.
Your hands are full of blood.
You push nothing but violence and murder and slaughter, which, again, is Israel today.
And all the Zionist Christian churches in America that are promoting this, their hands are full of blood.
Their prayers are unanswered by God.
God will not answer the prayers of wicked, evil people.
And I've said before in sermons, I said, it's not that hard to be a good person.
If you really read Scripture, and there are so many examples of this, in many, many verses, you get specific descriptions of evil, bad things, even in the New Testament, even in 1 and 2 Corinthians.
And then you get also many examples of good things, how to be a good person.
And you know what?
If you were to write all those down, just map them out, it's not that difficult to be a good person.
At least from my point of view, it's not that difficult.
It's like, everybody can do this.
You don't need money to be a good person.
You don't need fame to be a good person.
You don't need a college education.
You don't need to be an influencer to be a good person.
You can qualify for heaven As a simple person with no education, with no wealth, you could be a gardener and be heavenly in your deeds.
And many people are.
Many gardeners are more heavenly than, you know, Wall Street tycoons, obviously.
So understand that being good is not that difficult.
In other words, the gateway to heaven, to get to heaven, it is accessible to everyone.
Especially those who are financially impoverished.
Because again, money doesn't matter.
And what does the Bible tell us about rich people getting into heaven?
It's more likely that a camel would squeeze through the eye of a needle than a wealthy person goes to heaven, right?
So we already know what God thinks about this.
But again, to go to heaven...
All you have to do is be a good person, and it's not that difficult.
And yet, Israel, time and time again, they cannot be good people.
They refuse.
They reject.
But it's not just Israel.
It's Christians all over the world.
They refuse to be good people.
Many of them.
Obviously, there are committed Christians who are good people.
And that's who I like to interact with, and that's who I like to reach.
And the reason I speak so bluntly here is because I like to chase away evil people.
Like, if people are offended by this, I don't want them listening.
I don't want them to be part of the organization of the Church of Natural Abundance.
I only want people who want to be good.
And if that's a very tiny group, so be it.
This isn't a megachurch operation.
We're not asking for donations.
We're not trying to get rich off tithing.
We're not singing hymns, okay?
We're not doing any of that garbage.
We are teaching the Word of God, the truth of God, no matter how big or how small that group happens to be that wants to resonate with that lesson.
All right, so let's continue.
Verse 16,"'Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean.'" Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil, he says.
Perfect verse for what I was just talking about.
Verse 17, learn to do good.
Learn to do good.
Like, just, can you be a good person?
Seek justice.
Rebuke the oppressor.
Defend the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Hear what he says there?
Rebuke the oppressor.
Who is the oppressor today in the Middle East?
It's Israel.
Who is the oppressor in America?
It's evil government.
Or, you know, science and medicine and forcing you to take jabs.
Rebuke the oppressor.
That's what God says.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.
He's just commanding it, and it's not that difficult.
Verse 18, Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord.
Though your sins are like scarlet, that means harsh and filled with sin and of the color of blood, they shall be as white as snow, he says.
Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
He's saying you can be saved.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
So this is the same covenant promise that the Lord explains over and over and over again.
And remember what I said about the Bible, if you were to summarize the whole Bible?
I guess I've said it a few different ways, but bottom line is, don't be evil.
Be a good person.
And if you can't be a good person, you will be destroyed.
And if you are a good person, you'll go to heaven.
I mean, that's the Bible in a nutshell.
It's all of it.
Don't be evil, be a good person.
And if you need a bunch of examples of how to be a good person, well, we have 66 books of the Bible.
You can read about all these examples.
And if you don't know what evil is, well, we give those two so you can be certain.
It's a map of good versus evil in case you don't know.
Now, what's important for all of us to understand from this is that, and again, obviously this is going to be a controversial statement, but this is exactly what Christians need to hear.
Here it is.
Many Christians who think they're going to heaven are actually going to hell.
They deceive themselves.
They think that they can carry out a lifestyle which is in contradiction to God.
They think they can be filled with greed in their business operations.
Or they think they can be arrogant and look down on others and treat others poorly.
They think they can just gather everything for themselves like Smeagol.
Mine!
It's mine!
It's mine!
My precious, you know, all this kind of attitude that people have.
Yeah, the Schmeichel voice is one of the voice impersonations I do.
But it's wicked and evil.
If you can't be a good person, it doesn't matter what rituals you go through.
It doesn't matter that you go to church.
There are plenty of people who go to church who are also going to hell.
There are plenty of people who tithe to their church, who think they can buy their salvation with money, but they fail to do the things that really count because it's not money that really counts.
Like I said, your ticket to salvation doesn't require money.
It requires good behavior.
It requires being a good person, and that does not require money.
So a lot of people are deceiving themselves.
And they go to church because it's a social gathering.
It's a popularity contest.
It's like, oh, I like being with my friends, and I like to be there with these people.
But, I mean, that's great.
I love social interaction, but it has to be also based on spiritual honesty and integrity.
I love to socialize with people who have morals.
You know, I love to hang out with people who are intelligent and who have reason and who are good people.
I don't want to hang out with a bunch of demonic deceivers who pretend to be people of God.
It doesn't matter how much money they gave to the church or how many times they showed up or how many volunteer days they contributed.
If they're not good people, none of it counts.
That's the message from God to Isaiah, and it's a message that far too many people are missing.
And today, in Israel, a lot of Israelites today, Zionists, they think that they can celebrate the holidays and the feasts and the suppers and this and that, and that's going to wash away all their sins.
What sins?
Oh, I don't know, raping prisoners, raping children, murdering doctors, dropping bombs on women and children.
And they think they can just, you know, once a year they can just have an atonement and it's all washed away.
They literally believe that.
God doesn't give them a pass on that.
God sends them to hell.
God devours them by the sword or by fire.
And as we know, the sixth trumpet destroys Israel and the Middle East through fire.
So the very nation of Israel is completely destroyed because God is so fed up with all the fakery.
The wickedness.
And now, of course, in Isaiah, God talks about the sixth trumpet.
Isn't it incredible how often this comes up in the Bible?
Isaiah chapter 2.
We'll start with verse 5.
This is God telling the evil, wicked Israelites that he is going to destroy them.
Here it is.
O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with eastern ways.
They are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
Yeah, child trafficking, right?
Their land is also full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is also full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots, saying they have all this material wealth.
Their land is also full of idols.
They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
People bow down, and each man humbles himself.
Therefore, do not forgive them.
Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty.
Remember, by the way, in Zephaniah, where your blood is turned to dust because the body is vaporized at the impact of the comets, right?
So this is what he's talking about here.
Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled.
You know, there goes your arrogance, right?
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Yeah, you won't be worshiping anything else.
You'll be looking up at the sky going, oh, God is real!
Uh-huh.
Verse 12, for the day of the Lord of hosts, remember the day of the Lord, This is the day shall come upon everything proud and lofty upon everything lifted up and it shall be brought low upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of Bashan upon all the high mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up upon every high tower and upon every fortified wall and
remember by the way In Ezekiel 38, every wall falls when the impact happens.
Let's see.
Upon all the ships of Tarshish and upon all the beautiful sloops, the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low.
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, but the idols he shall utterly abolish.
And here we go, verse 19.
They shall go into the holes of the rocks.
Now, what does this remind you of?
Anything?
Maybe the sixth seal, I believe.
Does that remind you of the sixth seal?
The sixth seal.
I'll just read it for you again.
This is out of Revelation.
Behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, etc., And then it says, So
then back to Isaiah chapter 2 verse 19.
They shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
You got that?
When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Yeah, it's the same thing.
And he even says it twice because if we continue, verse 20, in that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the crags of the rugged rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
And by the way, if we go on to Isaiah chapter 3, the Lord talks about jewelry and luxuries and what would be considered today to be brand name gear.
Let's see, verse 16.
Moreover, the Lord says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, you know, arrogance, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will uncover their secret parts.
Oh, God, no, not their secret parts.
Um...
Verse 18, In that day the Lord will take away the finery, the jingling anklets, the scarves and the crescents, the pendants, the bracelets and the veils, the headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands.
I think if this were written today, it would be, and the nipple piercings, you know?
It would be like every crazy thing that people do today.
The perfume boxes, the charms, and the rings, the nose jewels.
Well, I was close.
The festal apparel and the mantles, the outer garments, the purses and the mirrors, the fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.
You see what he's saying?
So look at your own life right now, by the way.
Do you wrap yourself in these things?
I mean, this is an honest question.
Do you value yourself based on the items with which you adorn yourself?
If you do, I'm not saying you're a bad person, but you may want to reprioritize what's important.
There's nothing wrong with Having a professional appearance.
There's nothing wrong with some level of self-care, obviously.
You want your hair to be nice or neat or what have you.
There's nothing wrong with a couple of earrings or some simple makeup to just accentuate Your natural beauty, right?
But what God is talking about is, you've seen these people, especially these celebrities, they adorn themselves with all this jewelry and all these luxury purses and luxury shoes and luxury jeans and all this nonsense and these scarves and perfume boxes and everything he's talking about.
People who live like that are shallow people.
They are not people of God.
And we've all seen people like that.
We see them online.
We see them in movies and on TV and what have you.
They're just shallow people.
Those are not godly people.
So watch yourself on this.
Just double check yourself.
Make sure you've got your priorities set straight.
Verse 24, and so it shall be, this is the Lord speaking, instead of a sweet smell, there will be a stench.
That's funny.
That's funny.
Instead of well-set hair, baldness.
Yeah.
Can you imagine God doing this to one of these influencers today who thinks she's so hot and so amazing and is wearing like a skin-tight suit that augments her very narrow waist and her enlarged breasts and large buttocks and lipstick and hair?
Like if God just said, you're bald and naked with a rope, you know?
It would kind of be a little bit hilarious.
Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth, he says.
Yeah.
Suddenly you're wearing a sackcloth.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Is that a Halloween costume?
What is that?
And branding instead of beauty.
Ooh, branding like a cattle.
Your men shall fall by the sword and you're mighty in the war.
See?
This is what God is saying, that if you're into all this stuff, it's all going to be taken from you.
If you're faking like you're an important person by trying to define yourself through all these external means of brand names and value and monetary prices and all these things, it's going to be taken from you.
So don't live that way.
You know, you don't have to...
Live in luxury in order to be an important person or to be someone who earns their way into heaven.
And I'm reminded, by the way, I was doing a podcast, this was a couple of months ago, and I was talking about how I had kind of made a spiritual promise to myself that I would repair...
Everything that I could in my home or on my ranch without calling for any outside person to come in and help.
That I wanted to learn how to do plumbing and electrical work and carpentry and everything.
And in fact, this very evening, I was working on splicing a well pump power line Using a crimping tool and some heat shrink tubing.
It was a four wire setup.
It was, I think it was 12 gauge, 12 slash 3 wiring, 600 volt wiring for well pumps.
And I was working on that.
And yeah, it's a dirty, messy, muddy job.
But a couple of months ago, I was mentioning that my toilet started leaking.
Maybe I mentioned this in an early sermon.
It was leaking out of the bottom where the toilet seals with the floor.
And I said, oh no, that's not good.
And it got worse and worse to the point where I realized it was going to damage the floor.
And so eventually I had to turn off the water and empty everything out of the toilet and pull the toilet off the floor.
And that's when I realized that the piece of pipe that goes down into the floor, it was crooked.
It was sideways, tilted.
Like, oh man, well that explains a lot.
That's why it's leaking.
And anyway, I was describing what was required to repair this toilet and I said something just kind of offhand.
I said how difficult this was for me because I live in a house with only one toilet.
And so I said I had to walk outside and pee in the yard.
And, which by the way, that's one of my definitions of freedom, is if you live in the country far enough away from other people that you can just walk outside anytime, day or night, and just pee off your front porch.
That's a sense of freedom, actually.
That's, you have a good distance, you know, from neighbors.
But people, I got some comments, they're like, what do you mean you only have one toilet?
You don't have a guest bathroom?
No, I do not.
I do not have a guest bathroom.
I don't have a guest anything.
No, I don't.
I live in a very small place that has one toilet.
And when that toilet's broken, I pee outside.
It was just shocking to a lot of people.
I didn't think much about it because...
I've been working all these years in my commercial realm.
I've been working so hard to try to promote freedom and health freedom, nutrition, liberty, and also human awareness and everything.
I live on a ranch, so to me, luxury is being able to walk in nature.
Luxury is...
Being able to enjoy the trees and the grass and the animals.
And I never, I never in my mind, I never thought that I was lacking anything because I only had a one toilet house.
Never in my mind did that occur to me that that was like, I'm missing out or something.
And I'm not knocking anybody if you have...
What's typical?
Three bathrooms and...
No, two bathrooms and three bedrooms, right?
Isn't that normal?
No.
What is it?
Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, or two and a half bathrooms?
I don't know.
What's the standard?
Three, two?
Anyway, I think it's like...
Usually people have a master bathroom, a guest bathroom, and then maybe another bathroom for the other bedrooms.
Anyway, it's probably like two and a half baths, let's say.
Typical.
Very typical.
I'm not knocking anybody if you've got three bathrooms, four bathrooms, six, ten.
I feel sorry for you if you have to maintain ten toilets.
That's all I'm saying.
Because something's going to go wrong sooner or later with every one of those 10 toilets.
This is why I like a simpler life because there's less stuff to have to fix.
You know, keep it simple and you get more time instead of fixing everything.
But I'm not knocking people if you have a lot of bathrooms.
I'm just saying that in all my years of working and doing what I do, I never felt like I was poor.
Because I only had one bathroom or because I had a small house.
Never felt poor because of that.
Obviously, if I had felt poor, I could have bought a really big house, you know?
But then what?
What are you going to do with all that space?
Somebody's got to clean it.
Now, I don't have children, so it's easier for me.
If you have kids, yeah, of course, you're going to need bedrooms for them, and that necessitates more bathrooms, obviously.
I get that.
I totally get that.
I'm not judging you.
I'm just saying that, for me, one bathroom has always been enough, and I never felt like that was a measure of wealth or luxury.
I just felt like A bathroom, you just go there, you do your business, and then you get on to the things that really matter in life, you know?
I don't need some giant luxury bathroom.
What I need is I need to live in a world that's more free.
That's what I need.
And to do that, I need to educate people.
I need to reach people.
I need to do what I'm doing right now, help teach people to be good people.
You know, that's what I need.
I don't need a bigger bathroom.
I need bigger hearts in the world.
See?
So that's the way I look at these things.
And it's not that I'm not a person of means.
I mean, you know, we have a very large, very successful commercial operation that generates many millions of dollars a year in sales.
I mean, you saw our recent donations.
Thanks to our customers purchasing our products, we're able to donate $558,000.
Over half a million dollars.
So that donation is much larger than the value of the house I live in.
It's like probably five times larger.
And that's great.
The people in North Carolina need it more than I do.
The people in Florida need it.
So I'm the kind of person who has always been comfortable with a simple life.
I never felt the need To show luxury.
And I've always been a little bit put off by that, in case you want to know something about me personally.
And the people that I enjoy being around are people who have skills and wisdom.
And many of you listening to this, you are exactly those kind of people.
And if you've interacted with me face-to-face, you've noticed, probably, I hope, I don't judge you for what you wear, and I hope you don't judge me, because I'll come to the studio with muddy pants.
Like, seriously, ranch pants that I was in the mud the day before, and I didn't even change the pants.
I mean, I'm not filthy, okay?
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not filthy, but there's nothing filthy about mud, either.
You know, that's...
If I have a little bit of mud on the knees of my pants, that's okay.
It's not on camera.
I'll put on a dress shirt and a jacket and I'll film a bunch of interviews and nobody knows I've got mud on my knees.
Why?
Because I'm working on the well pump, you know, and probably after the studio, I go back to the ranch.
I'm going to be back, my knees back in the dirt again.
So why bother putting on new pants that day?
I'm just going to get them muddy again.
You see what I'm saying?
Again, I'm not filthy.
I'm all about clean living, clean blood, clean food, clean water.
But I don't consider mud to be dirty.
It's part of nature.
There's a lot of healing properties in mud, by the way.
There's nothing humiliating about getting your hands dirty.
Getting your hands in the dirt, in the mud, picking up a shovel.
Oh, I picked up some shovels recently.
Things I've had to shovel to pull this power line out of the dirt.
Oh my goodness.
Done a lot of shoveling.
There's no shame in that.
In fact, I consider it a kind of spiritual meritocracy.
Seriously.
I think that every person who has wealth Should commit to doing a certain amount of physical labor.
Because I think it's good for your soul.
And if you ever find yourself at a place in life where you're so rich, so wealthy, with so much gold and silver that you think that you're better than other people, you might want to check that.
You might want to check that.
And hopefully you're never...
At a level where you think that you're too good to pick up a shovel or plant a seed in the garden or pull weeds or all these things that we need to do or, you know, wash your dog or, you know, wash your cat.
Give your cat a bath.
As the comic Steve Martin used to say, the cat enjoys it.
The only problem is the hair sticks to your tongue when you do that.
But other than that, there's no shame in physical labor.
So do some of that yourself.
If you don't already.
And again, the people that I admire and the people that I know are people who get things done.
People who have skills.
They know how to do things.
They're not afraid to do things.
They will pick up a shovel.
They will help a person in need.
They will do things that matter in the real world.
And the more we can be like that, the more we will earn favor with God.
So as God says here in Isaiah, you know, stop being wicked.
Stop being evil.
Learn to be good.
Learn to be good.
You know how you learn to be good?
I'll tell you what.
Here's the simplest way to do that.
Start gardening.
You want to be a good person?
Grow your own food.
It will come automatically.
It will.
You will be humbled by your garden.
You will be humbled.
Yo, if you think you're all hot stuff, Mr.
or Mrs.
Hot Stuff, that you're so awesome, you're so huge, you're so haughty and so big, such a big deal, try growing some tomatoes and wait until it fails.
Try growing a crop of melons and then having all the leaves eaten by bugs.
Try growing an orchard and then one day you wake up and the deer ate your trees.
You'll be humbled.
You'll be humbled.
You will be humbled.
And you'll learn some practical skills.
You want to be a good person?
Grow your food.
Really.
If you grow your own food, you almost cannot help but be a good person.
Because there's a certain amount of labor involved.
Now, if you're listening and you are on the elderly side of things and you can't physically do the gardening, well, there are other things that you can do.
And find those things.
There are things that are less demanding.
If you've got knees or hips that aren't working for you because of a lifetime of use and age and what have you, well, find other things that you can do.
Because we all have a purpose.
We can all be useful in different ways.
We all have some challenges physically in our bodies.
I mean, remember, I almost cut off my index finger almost a year and a half ago.
And hey, you should try living without your index finger for six months.
I mean, it gave me a lot of understanding about people who have physical disabilities, by the way.
It really did.
Try living in this world being vision impaired, or hearing impaired, or being an amputee, or being paralyzed.
You know, huge challenges, and yet there are many people in those categories I just mentioned who find their purpose, and they become amazing people, and they earn their entrance to heaven.
So, regardless of your limitations, you can earn your way to heaven.
You have everything within you right now, every resource that you need to earn your way to heaven, to be in God's good graces.
You do not need external things to make you an important person.
You don't need money, you don't need fame, you don't need, I don't know, popularity, whatever.
All you need to do is read scripture, follow the simple rules of being a good person.
And that's literally all that's necessary except also accepting Christ into your life.
Just accept Jesus Christ, be a good person, you're done.
That's it.
It's really not complicated.
And if you want to make life really exciting, you can also, you know, fight against demons and things like that.
Fight against the oppressors, which God says.
Rebuke the oppressor.
Defend the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Right?
So, you can do these things.
You can be an activist for Christ.
That makes life really adventurous, by the way.
You can go on missions.
You can fund missions.
You can start a church.
Right?
You could be part of a ministry.
All kinds of things that you could do if you want to make life more adventurous.
Or you could just grow food.
Teach people how to grow food.
Donate food to your church that you grew.
Wow, how amazing would that be?
Teach your local church what real food is.
How about that?
So they don't keep serving processed food muffins and donuts for brunch.
Show them what real food is.
This is where you've got to give credit to the Mennonites.
You know, and the Amish, they study the Bible and they eat real food because they grow most of it themselves, you know?
There's a lot that I respect about the Mennonites and the Amish, by the way.
A lot that I respect.
I respect the Mennonites way more than these megachurches, these fake Christian megachurches.
They're not growing their own food.
They're flying around in their private jets with all their, you know, diamond earrings and Golden watches and everything.
No, I respect a Mennonite family more that's like putting carrot seeds in the ground, you know?
To me, that's way more godly.
And I think to God, that's more godly, too, obviously.
All right, so that's today's sermon, and I shared a little bit with you of my personal life and my personal philosophy.
And yes, it's true, sometimes people say I dress a little bit slobbish.
It's okay.
It's alright.
It's just my ranch pants and my ranch shirt and whatever.
Because I'm always working with the animals and I'm working with tools and I'm working outdoors and whatever.
I'm not trying to impress anybody with my clothing, okay?
So if you ever see me one day, you're like, oh, he's got mud on his shirt.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not a fashion statement.
It's because I was busy doing something that got mud on my shirt.
Or if I feed the chickens, then I'll have like grain, like grain dust on my hands and I wipe it on my shirt.
And it's like, you got grain dust on your shirt.
Yep.
Because I was feeding the chickens.
What about it?
You know?
So what?
Grain dust.
Who cares?
Anyway, we know the pathway to heaven.
It's very simple.
It's very clear.
So follow that path and, you know, look in the mirror, double check your own life.
Where can you improve things?
Where have you maybe diverted a little bit from the path?
And can you correct that path?
Can you do better in a certain area?
How can you live a life with more purpose that is in life?
Alignment with the fulfillment of God's mission for you.
Like, what is that for you?
Just think about it.
Ask yourself these honest questions.
Ask yourself, too.
Look in the mirror.
Ask yourself, do I believe I'm going to heaven?
Am I going to heaven?
And if you're not certain that you're going to heaven, you might have some more work to do.
Right?
It's common sense.
If you're not absolutely sure that you're going to heaven, Then there's some things that you could probably do.
So get working on those things.
We have time right now.
Time is a blessing from God.
Every day is a blessing from God.
Use those days to get in God's good graces and help others around you.
Of course, both of those things go together.
So thank you for listening today, and thank you for putting up with my harsh language.
And my personal stories involving mud.
But I told you this isn't going to be like a regular church sermon.
No, this is something different.
We're going to teach the Word of God authentically with God's fury when He's expressing it.
We're going to tell the truth about what God says, and I'm not going to sugarcoat anything.
These sermons are for mature adults who want to know the truth about what God expects of us.
If you want the comic book children's book version, there's a Bible study child group somewhere that you can go to and be entertained with.
With their, you know, animations and whatever else.
But for everybody else that wants to know the real Word of God and what He expects of us, and what's the price if you reject God, which is to burn in hell for eternity, well, this is the place to learn the truth and then make a choice because it's not that hard to be a good person.
Thank you for listening today.
Mike Adams here, Abundance.Church.
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