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Nov. 24, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Sermon #103 - Romans 13 - Paul was a DECEIVER who perverted the teachings of Christ...
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Welcome to today's sermon.
I'm Mike Adams with the Church of Natural Abundance.
The website is abundance.church, and thank you for joining me today.
We're going on quite an interesting adventure today, asking the question, from where does authority come for you to act in ways that are needed to enhance your life, to protect your health, to protect your earnings and savings, your family, your property, etc.?
From where does this power come?
We're also going to begin to question some of the motives of certain characters in the Bible.
In this case, Paul, previously known as Saul, who was a Essentially a murderer of Christians, well, a pursuer of Christians who were murdered.
He was, in his youth, an evil person, and he admits it.
He admits he was perhaps the worst sinner of all.
And some of his teachings carry through that sin because they teach falsehoods that we're going to expose today.
And one of the things that got me thinking about this is, as I'm recording this, the U.S. election of 2024 has completed, but we're in this time period between the election and the swearing in of Donald Trump on January 20th of next year, but we're in this time period between the election and the And in this period, as is customary, presidents choose or nominate the people who will run the various agencies of the government.
And in this case, he has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up HHS, which is Health and Human Services that oversees the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, and a lot of other agencies.
And I see a lot of vigorous debate, a lot of anxiety among people, just hoping, like, can we get RFK in?
We've got to get RFK in.
And then there's anxiety or hope or protest over who Trump is picking as the Surgeon General.
And Trump has picked someone as Surgeon General who has a history of promoting vaccines and promoting double masks and lockdowns and things like that.
And there's a lot of pushback by a number of people about this Surgeon General pick.
And what's interesting to me is that the Surgeon General is supposed to be the health authority of the nation, where this person, this Surgeon General, is supposed to, in essence, This is supposed to be an authority figure.
And so it brings up the basic question of our sermon today.
From where does authority spring?
Does authority come from a person because Trump named that person the, quote, Surgeon General?
We're not even having surgery.
What's it got to do with surgeons?
But you get my point.
Do we have to wait for that person to be in a position in order for us to do something about our own health?
And the answer, of course, is no.
And one of the reasons I'm putting out this sermon today is to tell you something that you probably know, but you may have forgotten, which is that you don't have to wait for permission to be healthier.
You don't need to wait on the government.
You don't need to wait on health and human services or the surgeon general or RFK Jr. or Trump or anybody.
You can make healthier choices right now in your life.
Your next meal could be all organic.
It could have superfoods in it.
It could be more fresh.
Your very next meal could be the first step on the journey towards perfect health in your life.
Your next meal or your next smoothie could be an anti-cancer smoothie.
It could support your nervous system and your cognition.
It could be a smoothie that helps stabilize blood sugar.
If you have type 2 diabetes right now or if you've been diagnosed with that or labeled that, you could begin to reverse that condition at your very next meal.
Not just by things that you choose not to eat, like, hey, let's not have donuts and Pop-Tarts and ice cream and fried foods in this meal, but instead let's do these other things.
So it's about adding things to your diet and taking some things away.
But do you need government permission to make healthier choices in your life?
The answer is no.
You don't need government's permission at all.
So from where does your authority come to control your own life?
You can be your own Department of Health and Human Services.
You can be your own FDA. You can be your own CDC. You can make your own decisions.
You can run all your own departments over your own body because God gave you the authority to make decisions about your body, your actions, and your future.
And he did that when he gave you the gift of life, which we've talked about before.
Natural law.
Natural rights.
So, your authority to make positive decisions about your health comes not from government, but from God.
God grants you the authority.
God grants it to you.
God grants you the authority to make decisions in your life because you're given the gift of free will.
The fact that you have that gift is proof of the authority to act as you see fit.
It is self-evident.
If God didn't want you to act on your own authority, then he wouldn't have given you free will.
So we don't have to wait on government or some other false authority We don't have to wait on them to do good deeds for ourselves or to do what's right for ourselves.
And this is one of the great failings of modern humans is they are enslaved to false authority.
They think they have to wait for government permission.
They think that rights come from government.
They don't.
Rights come from God.
In fact, the United States Constitution lays out a very limited set of powers to the federal government, saying that those powers come from God to the people, and then the people grants them to the government, and that whatever powers are not mentioned for the federal government are reserved for the states, which means for the local people.
And then, after the Constitution was signed a few years later, the Bill of Rights came into existence, which specifically enshrines certain human rights to be protected from government overreach.
That is, the First Amendment, for example, the right to free speech and freedom of expression, freedom of religious expression, etc., the Second Amendment, and so on.
Those were deemed to be necessary because Government always tends to try to overreach.
Government always wants to be your daddy and tell you what you're allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do.
And it's the great scam of the ages that people, most people, believe that government is the authority.
And this is especially true in a society where people are convinced that there's no God, and so they have no God to believe in anyway.
So they turn to government as their God.
This is the point of elections, by the way.
All modern elections are rigged.
They're all theater.
But they're designed to convince you that you have participated in the choice.
That whoever is in charge is there because of the voice of the people and that you have to respect that person.
Even if it's a crook, a fraudster, a con artist, a child molester.
If they're called governor or senator, and they might even support genocide or child mutilations, but you are told that you have to respect the will of the people because those leaders were voted into office, it's said.
But you and I know that's not true, that elections are theater.
It's a fraud.
It's a psychological trick to make you consent to being ruled by a cabal of criminals.
And, of course, this brings us to Romans chapter 13, which is one of the...
Well, Romans itself is one of the many books authored by Paul.
Paul...
I've been impressed with Paul.
I've talked about his writings and his teachings in previous sermons.
I've been impressed with his intellect.
But the more I read about the Bible and the more I compare the words of Paul with the words of Christ, like, for example, I have a Red-letter Bible here that's only the words of Jesus, verbatim, from the four Gospels, okay?
That's what I have.
And guess what?
Guess what to find out?
Paul was an imposter.
Paul elbowed his way into the church to try to present himself as being chosen by the Son of God, and he shoved aside the Other apostles.
He played politics to put himself in power as the leader of the Christianity movement.
But Paul is so dominating in this that it really should be called Paulianity more than Christianity.
I mean, think about it.
If you attend mainstream Christian church services, do you hear more words from Jesus or more words from Paul?
You hear mostly from Paul, don't you?
Again, Paul was a prolific writer, and he did say a lot of very important things, but he was also a false prophet in certain ways, and that comes out in Romans 13. Now, just to give you context here, Romans, well, the whole book of Romans is This is one of Paul's letters to all the various churches of the region, but this is, of course, to the citizens of Rome.
And there was quite a rift between the Jews and the Gentiles.
And what Paul is attempting to teach in this is that you can heal that rift through love and tolerance for each other.
That the Gentiles, they don't need to practice all these silly...
Jewish rituals like circumcision or kosher foods or what have you.
But the Jews also need to be tolerant of the Gentiles and through mutual love and tolerance that all the different people can learn to live together and they can all behave like Christians.
And through that, by the way, the Jews can be saved by learning to recognize Christ, which is kind of interesting.
Because most Jews today don't recognize Christ.
But remember the background of Paul.
His original name was Saul, and he used to hunt down Christians and have them stoned to death, right?
He was basically a Christian bounty hunter.
He was one of the most vile figures in the history of Christianity.
And then it's said that he was reformed through Christ, and he accepted Christ as his Savior.
But did he really, or did he use the notoriety of Christ in order to prop himself up into a higher position where he could claim to be the master teacher?
Was Paul trying to make himself into a Christlike figure?
Because he was very arrogant.
He always talked about himself a lot, by the way, and how pious he was.
Even as he was condemning other people for talking about themselves.
Paul didn't really practice what he preached, and he made some huge mistakes in his preaching.
And this is one of them, Romans 13. So this is important for us to cover and to demolish this chapter of the Bible.
Well, this chapter of the book of Romans.
Here's what Paul wrote.
Quote, Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
All right, now, right there we know that's a lie.
It was a lie even in the days of Rome.
So, we know that Paul isn't an idiot.
He's one of the most highly intellectual people of his day, multilingual, for example, strong, rational, logical arguments and so on.
But remember, he had done a lot of time in prison and he thought he might be killed at one point in prison.
And he probably didn't want to be arrested by the Roman soldiers, especially if he traveled through Rome.
So it's very clear that Paul was aware of the corruption of Rome, and he must have known that many of the political leaders in Rome did not represent the will of God, and that they were not in power because of the authority of God.
He knew that.
So why is he saying this?
He's saying this to appease Rome.
That's why he's saying this.
And that's why he goes on.
He says, therefore, whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God.
And those who resist will bring judgment on themselves, he says.
He's saying, don't disobey government because you are disobeying God.
Now, by the way, Jesus never said this.
And the Lord Himself never, never, never said this.
Now, Jesus, at times, He subjected Himself to the law.
You know, He didn't fight with Pilate, the Roman judge.
He just answered His questions.
And Jesus didn't even fight His own crucifixion, actually.
He submitted Himself to Rome.
But He did not tell His followers that Rome represents the Lord.
Jesus said that he represents the Lord, not Rome.
And that's one of the reasons why the Jews of the time, the Israeli leaders, the high Jewish priests, that's why they were able to threaten Pilate into approving the murder of Christ, because they said that Christ claims to be king of the Jews, which he actually had never claimed to be king of the Jews.
Christ had claimed to be A spokesperson for the Lord or the Son of the Lord who is King of the cosmos, King of all that is.
That's what Christ was saying.
But the corrupt Jewish priests claimed that Jesus said he was the King of the Jews, or I think they also implied that he was a threat to the power of Rome, and none of that was true.
But here's Paul lying, lying to the followers of Christ.
In order to protect himself from Rome, which is exactly the opposite of what Jesus did, isn't it?
So Paul says, quote, Well, that's a lie.
Government rulers, especially today, they are a terror to good works.
They terrorize good people.
And they promote evil.
Think about it.
Think about the world today.
But, of course, Paul couldn't have known about the world today.
But even in his day, he knew that Rome was a government of terror.
I mean, did not Paul realize that Rome ordered the crucifixion of Christ and ordered him to be murdered?
And that's a form of terror, to terrorize and murder the Son of God?
How does Paul excuse Rome for that?
Well, the answer is that Paul is betraying the Word of Christ here.
Paul is betraying the Lord in saying this.
Paul is saying that Rome is good and that all government officials are ordained by God and that they speak for God.
This is one of the big lies of Paul, one of many, by the way.
And Paul lectures the Christians.
He says, do you want to be unafraid of the authority?
This is in Romans 13, verse 3. Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
He means, if you do good deeds, the government will praise you.
Well, that's a laughing matter.
Are you kidding me?
If you do good deeds, the government will punish you.
If you are evil, the government will reward you.
That's what we all know to be true.
Verse 4, for he is God's minister to you for good.
Talking about the government.
But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain.
For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
Therefore, you must subject, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake, For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing.
What?
So he's saying even the tax collectors work for God, not for Rome.
Hmm.
Okay.
Whatever, you liar.
He says, Render therefore to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
And then what's really funny about this chapter is that if you skip forward to verse 9, he says, for the commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
He says that, but the government violates all those things.
He says, you shall not commit adultery.
The government leaders that we all know, and even in the day of Rome, weren't they adulterers?
He says, you shall not murder, but the government murders all the time.
Government kills innocent people, builds weapons of mass destruction, bombs children in Gaza in our present time, but even in the days of Rome, the government killed people unjustly.
He says you shall not steal, but taxation is theft.
Taxation is stealing from the people, especially in the modern world where the government just prints money anyway.
You know, back in the day of Rome, when the coinage, at least in the early days, it actually had valuable metal in it, for the government to raise money, it actually literally had to collect some coins from the people.
Today, that's not necessary.
They can just print money electronically, create it out of nothing, and they do that anyway.
So what's the point of taxing the people?
The government doesn't need taxation in order to raise money from the people.
Taxation is theft.
And Paul said, you shall not steal, but the government steals.
So how can the government be ordained by God?
Why should you be obedient to the government that steals and murders and also bears false witness?
Which is the next sin that he mentions.
Government does that all the time.
The government fabricates fake accusations against people.
Look at the lawfare they committed against Donald Trump over the last several years.
Look at the fake...
Look at how the FBI entraps people or how the ATF entraps people.
The government bears false witness constantly, constantly.
Every White House press conference is just, it's an exercise in lying.
So this is all in the same chapter from Paul.
He says, be obedient to government.
Government authorities are appointed by God, but you shall not lie, you shall not steal, and you shall not murder.
And yet he excuses the very government that does all of those things.
How could a man of Christ say these things back to back with a straight face?
And the answer becomes abundantly clear.
Paul is not a man of Christ.
Paul is an imposter.
He's using the glory of Christ to lift himself up as being important so that he can have power and fame and so that he can have his letters written into the Bible for all time while he's elbowing out James and others who were a lot more qualified.
James was the brother of Jesus, or at least half-brother.
So now are you beginning to see that when we look at the Bible, We can't just simply look at it as, hey, this is a book written by God.
That's not at all true.
The Bible is a book that is an assembly of many, many different writings, obviously spanning many thousands of years from many different authors.
And there are parts that are, of course, intentionally dropped out of the Bible, and there are certain chapters that are chosen to be in the Bible.
And then the Bible, of course, gets translated over time, New King James Version, which is what I usually read from.
It's not 100% loyal to the original languages, and of course, the original languages are many different languages.
Sometimes it's Hebrew, sometimes Arabic, sometimes Greek, what have you, right?
So, you know, Latin, sometimes we don't even know for sure what the original verses said.
What I want you to understand is that the Bible is as much a political document as it is a spiritual recording.
The Bible as it exists today, the 66 books that are recognized in Christianity, these 66 books are not verbatim the Word of God.
Here's a good way to look at it.
When you were in high school, did you have a yearbook?
I know that was a big deal, probably still is.
There's a yearbook every year that's produced, and there's usually a team of your fellow students who are the yearbook team.
At least when I was in high school, there was a team that did the photography and the layout, and it was a whole class, like how to produce a yearbook.
And isn't it funny how...
All the featured photos that ended up in the yearbook were friends of the people who worked on the yearbook team.
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing?
And typically that was just like the popular kids.
So you didn't see the unpopular kids, the castaways, or even the super nerds.
My friends were the super nerds, the chess team guys.
I was in the math club for real in high school.
I was very unusual because I also ran track and I played football for one year.
I ran track for four years.
And I was in the math club, and I won a lot of medals in the math club, which is really funny.
And the people on the football team knew I was in the math club, and they would ask me during football practice, they would say, so I hear you're in the math club, right?
I'm like, yeah.
Like, So what do you do there, man?
You just, like, do math all the time?
And then in the math club, the fellow math club geeks would ask me, like, so, like, you're on the football team, right?
And I would say, yep, I'm on the football team.
Like, what do you guys, you just, like, play football all the time?
It's like these two groups did not understand each other at all.
Which is really weird because everything's in the name.
The football team plays football.
The math club does math.
It shouldn't be complicated.
My point is that the yearbook team assembles the yearbook and the people who get into the yearbook and the photos and the stories in the yearbook are just the people who are known by the yearbook team.
You probably saw that too in your own yearbook.
Maybe you were on the yearbook team And looking back, you're probably thinking, yeah, I did kind of just fill it with the photos of the people I knew.
Well, that's how the Bible was assembled, folks, in large part.
It's a popularity contest.
And Paul was able to make himself a popular apostle, and he did that through politics.
And we'll get into this in other sermons, but Paul is not the angel that modern Christianity makes him out to be.
He's really an imposter.
And this Romans 13 tells you, shows you that Paul is willing to lie to make sure that he appeases the evil, wicked government that ordered the murder of his own teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, wicked government that ordered the murder of his own teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, the
So Paul proved that he is the opposite of Jesus, where Jesus refused to bow down to Rome and instead allowed himself to be crucified and continued to insist that I represent the king of everything and Paul says you should be obedient to Rome.
You should bow down to Rome because government is your God.
It's that attitude that drives a lot of modern Christian churches.
When they say that you have to take your vaccine jabs because the government authorities say so, and then they cite Romans 13, oh, you're supposed to submit to government because the government authority is appointed by God.
Let me tell you something.
These churches aren't quoting God.
They're not quoting Jesus.
They're quoting Paul, the imposter, who contradicted the teachings of Jesus.
You see?
That's the truth that we need to get to here.
So all these Romans 13 churches that submit to government, they are anti-Christ churches by definition because they teach the opposite of what Christ taught.
And that's the same thing as what Paul taught in some cases.
I'm not saying that Paul didn't have valuable lessons.
I've quoted Paul many times in 1 and 2 Corinthians, for example, and other chapters, and he said a lot of very important things.
But he wasn't the Son of God, and he wasn't truly dedicated to the teachings of Christ.
Paul was dedicated to the popularity of Paul.
And he succeeded in that, as is evidenced by how many chapters in the New Testament were written by Paul.
How many letters to how many churches, how many philosophical arguments were all written by Paul?
Was Paul quoting Jesus?
Most of the time, no.
Paul was making up the Paulianity version.
He left Jesus behind.
He left Jesus in the dust and he made up his own new version but called it Christianity because that's what was popular.
Christ.
Christ was the one who performed the miracles, not Paul.
Christ cast out demons.
Paul didn't do that.
Paul, in his early life, he was a demon.
He was the one who He was the bounty hunter chasing down and effectively murdering Christians.
So don't think that every word in the New Testament, or even in the Old Testament for that matter, but don't think that every word in the New Testament is absolutely the word of God.
It is not.
A lot of it is the word of Paul.
And Paul says, the government is your God.
Think about that.
Now, Paul was also a false teacher on the issue of faith versus works, whereas Jesus always taught works.
Jesus said you should clothe those who are missing clothing.
You should feed the hungry.
You should shelter those who are homeless.
Paul said that all is necessary for salvation is just faith.
You just have to accept Christ as your Savior, And you're done.
You don't have to actually do any good works.
Now, you may recall that we covered James chapter 2, I'm pretty sure it is, where he covers what faith without works is dead.
That, yes, faith is necessary, but faith has to be accompanied by works.
Your deeds matter.
And that's what Jesus taught.
But Paul says, nope, it's just faith alone.
Faith alone gets you into heaven.
Sorry, that's a lie.
That's Pollyannity, not Christianity.
And then Paul...
He actually claims to be a Christ-like figure.
This is in Galatians 2, verse 19. He says, You see what he's saying?
He's saying that he is basically Christ, and that you should worship him, in essence, like you worship Christ.
Paul is saying that my Paul-ness is gone, and I am now just Christ.
Christ lives through me.
I am now the Son of God, basically, is what he's saying.
Just a little twist on words.
He's amping himself up as basically Christ 2.0.
That's not cool, because that's not who he is.
So this is why I have purchased a couple of red-letter Bibles.
Flip it through one of them right now.
Just the words of Jesus and I think that it's really important to read at least one time through just the words of Jesus.
And I've begun doing that.
I haven't made it all the way through.
But Paul's words are not the words of the Lord.
Paul is obedient to corrupt government.
Paul is telling the people to be obedient to those governments that do bear false witness, that do murder, that do steal.
That violate the commandments of God.
And thus, Paul is telling you to enslave yourself under a false government and that all you have to do to achieve freedom is just say that you believe in Jesus and you are saved by faith alone.
It's all a lie.
Paul is an imposter.
He is a liar.
He And thus, once you understand that, I mean, even for myself, I have to go back and rethink everything that Paul said.
Because I used to think that, well, this must have been from the authority of Christ.
You know, didn't Christ give Paul the authority to issue all these letters to all the churches?
Not exactly, it turns out.
Not really.
Paul just kind of assumed the power.
And, you know, he would present himself.
I'm the apostle.
I'm the lead apostle.
I'm the one true chosen apostle.
That's not the way Jesus saw it.
So we have to be really careful about this, understanding that a lot of the Bible is actually false teachings.
So You can only understand this, though, after you start to really, I think, study it and read it and have some discernment about the politics behind the Bible.
How were these books chosen?
How were these chapters chosen?
And some books, like Jeremiah, for example, it was very fortunate that his writings were even preserved, I think, if it wasn't for his secretary.
None of those writings would have been found.
She gathered them all up.
A bunch of scrolls back in those days, right?
Gathered up the scrolls, and then other scribes faithfully reproduced the scrolls, and it was a pretty tedious task back then, in the Old Testament days especially, but even New Testament, you know?
We didn't have the printing press then either.
So this is a tedious task.
So whose writings made it into the Bible?
Well, sometimes it was by merit.
Sometimes it was by luck.
Sometimes it was by a popularity contest.
And that's how Paul nudged his way into dominating so much of the New Testament, even though he basically was an antichrist figure.
That's how he started, and that's ultimately what he taught.
He contradicted the teachings of Christ.
But that leaves us Christians with an important choice.
If you choose to follow Christ, if you choose to follow the teachings of the Lord, you can't also follow the teachings of Paul because Paul taught you that corrupt, dishonest government represents the Lord.
And he lies to you and says that government employees or government leaders are appointed by God.
That's not true at all.
Think about the government leaders that you know today.
Were they appointed by God?
No, they were installed by election fraud.
That's the opposite of godliness, isn't it?
So Paul's a liar.
So to embrace Christ's teachings, you have to reject the character of Paul.
And then that means you have to rethink everything that Paul said, all of his letters, and was he dramatizing a lot of things?
Was he making up the story about how he thought he might be murdered, but it might be in the prison, but it would be okay because he would be able to join with Christ?
Sounds like he was kind of dramatizing a little bit, actually, in retrospect, doesn't it?
Sounds like this guy was an infiltrator.
Or as we would say today, he's a deep state plant.
So Christianity got hijacked by a deep state plant who tried to tell Christians to obey government.
So if you thought that, you know, getting red-pilled, if you thought government corruption and the whole COVID pandemic fraud, if you thought all that is just a recent thing, oh no, no.
It's been going on, of course, for thousands of years.
Same thing back then.
They wanted you to obey government.
So they roll out an apostle that tells you that your government is your God.
But of course, God said, you're evil if you worship false idols.
Or if you worship the creations of man, which would include government.
So you can't follow Paul and be godly.
You can't be a holy person if you follow what Paul said.
Pretty clear.
It's also suspicious to me that Paul claims to have secret special knowledge that Jesus gave only to him.
Again, all throughout Paul's writings, you see him boasting of his special position of him being like Christ.
I think he was actually jealous of Jesus.
He wanted to become the new Jesus.
For example, in Galatians 1, verse 11, he says, But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man, for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.
And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and remain with him fifteen days.
But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
Now concerning the things which I write to you indeed before God, I do not lie, he says.
It's like somebody says, Can I just be honest with you?
Can I just be honest with you?
Then he says, Afterward, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ, but they were hearing only, quote, he who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy, and they glorified God in me, he says.
So this is Paul talking up Paul.
This is a storyteller.
This is a guy who It's like a modern day, just smooth talker, is what Paul is.
And he says, you know, Jesus gave it to me alone.
And then I went and visited these places, and then they worshipped me, and Christ lives through me, and the person I am before is dead, and now I live as the Son of God.
And, you know, I don't believe it.
And you should be obedient to Rome because government is God.
I don't think so.
I think Paul's an imposter.
He's a liar.
So look, folks, the bottom line here is that what Jesus said in the Gospels versus what Paul wrote after that, they are fundamentally at odds with each other.
You can't reconcile them just by They are very different.
So, Paul's teachings are not the teachings of Christ.
It's very clear.
Actually, I don't think there are any theologians who even disagree with that point, by the way.
Even mainstream theologian academics, they agree that these teachings are really, really different.
The question is, which one, Jesus or Paul, which one was aligned with The teachings of the Lord or the demands of the Lord.
There's the question for you because remember how we started this sermon.
It is from the Lord that you acquire authority to make decisions in your life.
It's the Lord that granted you free will.
It's the Lord that granted you the freedom to choose a different future for yourself.
No man can give you that power and no government can give you that power.
Thus, when Paul says that you must obey government, that government is your God, clearly that contradicts the teachings of the Lord, not to mention the teachings of Christ.
Whereas Jesus said, In other words, You can achieve freedom through knowledge, which in that context from John, by the way, is the knowledge that Jesus is the Savior.
Jesus is the Son of God who died for your sins.
And he was speaking to the Jews in that chapter, saying, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
But he follows up by saying, only if you choose God.
To carry out actions that are consistent with the Lord's teachings.
In fact, where is it?
He says, So that's Jesus saying, you have a choice.
You can carry out good works or You can choose to kill me.
That's your choice.
But the truth shall set you free.
That's what Jesus teaches.
Paul teaches obedience to government is the pathway to salvation.
Think about that, folks.
Think about that.
And so what we're going to do in future sermons is now we're going to have this understanding that Paul is a deceiver, that Paul is He elbowed his way into a very dominant position in the Bible, contradicting the Gospels, and that he is not faithful to the teachings of the Lord, and that he's not faithful to the teachings of Christ.
And also, did Paul even really, did he hang out with the other apostles?
I don't think so.
It doesn't sound like it.
I think Paul just kind of went off and appointed himself and then just kind of scammed everybody, and that's how he ended up in the Bible.
You know, he's like one of those guys that always ends up everywhere, but you're not sure why.
You don't know if he earned it.
He's like the Elon Musk of the ancient civilization.
He's like, why is this guy everywhere?
Well, now you know.
So the most important message I have for you today is to think critically when you read the Bible, as I am doing and hoping to share with you.
And if we read the Bible blindly, then we're trusting a bunch of unknown people who chose to assemble certain books and scrolls and passages into the Bible, and we're trusting translations that we have no control over.
I tell you what I do trust.
I do trust the words of Jesus.
And that's why I'm going to narrow my faith-based understanding of the Bible to the words of Jesus alone.
Everybody else, I'm going to take with a grain of salt.
Does that seem reasonable?
I mean, if we are Christians, shouldn't we put the words of Christ first?
Or are we Paulians?
If you're a Paulian, Then call yourself a Paulian.
Don't call yourself a Christian if you're a Paulian.
You're a follower of Paul.
You can practice Paulianity, and you can have a Paulianity church.
You'd be like the church of Paul and Saul.
I don't know.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
But that's my take on this, so let's always read the Bible critically, and let's be very careful What sources we trust in this, knowing that this is—the history of the Bible is—it's steeped in politics and government collusion and, you know, popularity contests, all kinds of things.
And then, above all, today in our world, don't believe what Paul said.
Don't think that authority comes from government.
It doesn't.
Government has no authority over you.
Only God has authority, because it's God that granted you authority.
Your soul and your free will.
Government only seeks to take that away from you.
Government wants to steal your soul and take away your free will.
God granted it to you.
So who are you going to trust more?
God or government?
The answer should be quite clear.
Alright, thank you for listening today.
Mike Adams here of the Church of Natural Abundance.
Website is abundance.church.
God bless you all.
Thank you for listening.
And if you want to join me in what I'm doing...
Pick up books that are, like, I've got one here called Only the Words of Jesus, Verbatim from the Four Gospels.
And this, I've got a King James Version here, and I've got another version here as well.
So read just the words of Christ if you really want to join me in this journey, and compare that to what Paul said, and you'll find that it's quite different.
Interesting.
All right, take care, everybody.
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