11. A Herald to Jesus of Nazareth's Bride

The Church in this country is at a time in which there will be no Isaiah 64:1-3 without Joel 2:13 first.

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This is episode 11 of my version of an audiobook for the book I wrote titled A Herald to Jesus of Nazareth's Bride in the United States of America. I'm gonna in this episode, I'm gonna finish up uh the things about materialism, and then I'm gonna move to the next stone. So here's the part finishing up about materialism. Here's a quick litmus test. If you give money and then deduct that money off your income taxes, you are not giving. You loaned your money because you got your money back. You didn't give anything. Giving means giving with no strings attached and no way to recover what you gave. Jesus of Nazareth's followers are not to give to then get, or to give to give, like he gives. Jesus said his people are to give in a way that they have no record of what they gave. Matthew 6, 1 through 4. One of the many issues Yahweh confronted Israel with when she was praying for revival was how she was treating the poor. He told her, and this is in Isaiah chapter 3. The Lord takes his place in court. In court. He rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of the people. It is you who have ruined my vineyard. Plunder from the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor? declares the Lord Almighty. The church in this country cannot have it both ways. Just as Jesus said, one cannot, as in being unable, serve God and money. No one can live the American dream, attend church in a comfortable, even a luxurious building, and think Jesus is receiving their worship and hearing their prayers, much less sending revival. And by the way, have you read this? Luke chapter twenty one. As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. Truly I tell you, he said, This poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth, but she gave out of her poverty, put in all she had to live on. When Jesus of Nazareth begins a comment with the phrase, I tell you the truth, or truly I tell you, one had better pay attention to what follows. So if you're tithing while living the American lifestyle, you're not only not like this woman, Jesus signaled out to make a powerful point about giving, but you're also a joke. That is, you're fooling only yourself if you think you can tithe, and that tithing somehow gives you permission to still live the American dream. 1 John chapter 2. By the way, I think I should probably, this is one of the footnotes that's probably important. There's no tithing in the New Covenant, in the New Testament. That's the Mosaic law. We're not under the law if you're in the New Covenant. However, the standard is not less, like everything else, it's higher. For example, you know, not committing adultery, which is obviously a good thing, but if you lust, you're committing adultery. Not committing murder is obviously a good thing, but hating is committing murder. See, the standard is higher, it's not lower. So it's not just giving 10% or tithing, it's giving generously and joyously. And there's no cursing of your finances if you don't give, and there's no reward in your finances if you do give. When people get up and give those kind of testimonies, it's because Satan is trying to keep them under the Mosaic law. That tithing is not in the new covenant. Giving is generously giving, yes. Tithing with rewards and curses, no. At the end, depending on how you handled your money, you'll either receive rewards or experience losses. That's how it works in the New Covenant. So back to 1 John chapter two. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love of the Father is not in them. For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God, and how a person handles money, for example, lives forever. Jesus does not need money. He wants his followers to be free from the god of money and materialism. Living the fasted lifestyle of the kingdom helps produce this. Living the lifestyle of the American dream produces the complete opposite. This is clearly a sowing and reaping thing. Maybe Christians in this country don't think the word rich applies to them. This is not accurate. When Jesus spoke of the rich, he was not referring to the filthy rich, such as kings and nobles. Today, the filthy rich would be those who have family wealth, corporate executives, Wall Street tycoons, those who have cashed in on technology, the music business, television in Hollywood, and professional sports. These are not the rich Jesus was talking about. Such people obviously have issues with money. The rich Jesus was referring to were those who were merchants, artisans, tax collectors. In other words, what we would call middle class today. These were the people the average person listening to Jesus wanted to be like, to have their kind of relatively easy and comfortable lifestyle. For there was no way they were ever going to rise to the place of the nobility. So when Jesus says the rich, he is talking to middle class American Christians in addition to the filthy rich Christians. Do you remember the Jabez Fad, first Chronicles four, nine through ten? Jabez's mother named him Jabez, which means he causes sorrow or pain. The text says he was an honorable man and yet he must have felt somewhat cursed by his name. Therefore he asked the God of Israel to give him two things, to bless him with wealth and to keep him from any pain. And this God granted his request. Gee, who wouldn't want those two things? But compare the temporal things Jabez got with what Phineas got. First, here's the backstory. Balaam was willing to curse Israel for a big paycheck. After trying to do this several times and was unable, blessing them instead, advised the king of Moab to get Yahweh to curse them by getting Israel to sin sexually. So Moabite women were sent to entice the men of Israel, successfully seducing many of them. And when this sexual immorality broke out throughout the camp, Yahweh broke out against Israel. Seeing the problem, a young man named Phineas took action by driving a spear through an Israelite man and a Moabite woman while they were in the act of Coitus. When Yahweh saw this, he told Moses, Phineas, son of Elizer, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am. I did not put an end to them in my zeal. Therefore, tell him I am making a covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites. Phineas acted unselfishly. He did what was best for Israel. He had no thought about himself, and he did what he did because he was zealous for Yahweh's honor, not expecting anything in return. And while Jabez got rich and lived a life free from pain, two things Americans, even American Christians, love, Phineas and his descendants got a covenantal promise of a lasting priesthood. So, do you want what Jabez got? Or what Phineas got? 1 Timothy 6. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. I'm not gonna in this episode move into the um the eighth stone that people are tripping over, psychology, which I have mentioned briefly previously. In the book, I have a little cartoon, and uh it's like a guy, he's painting a sign, and on the first line it has uh psycho, the next line has the T-H-E, and then the last line has rapist. And so then there's some guy that's uh sees this and and realizes this is a mistake. He says, psychotherapist is one word, one word. But it's true, and you break it down into three, it's psycho the rapist. Fairy tales, G.K. Chesterson said, do not tell children that jet dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. Let's say you're having some terrible, terribly painful stomach pains and decide to go see your doctor about it. And when the doctor comes into the little examining room, looks at the information the nurse inputted on your case, he says, I see you're having some stomach pains. You say, Yeah, doc, I am. And you begin to tell him about your terribly painful stomach pains. The doctor listens with his or her best uh patient care listening skills. And when you're finished describing your terribly painful stomach pains, the doctor thinks for a moment and then says, Well, it's obvious you have stomach cancer. We need to immediately get you into radiation and chemotherapy. These therapies won't heal you, but they will at least help you to live a reasonable life with your incurable disease. Radiation and chemotherapy, you exclaim. But Doc, first, how did you come to such a diagnosis without without doing any actual medical tests? And secondly, how can you then prescribe these incredibly body incredibly body damaging treatments without some medical tests? The doctor, putting on his or her best professional demeanor and speaking quite expertly, says, I know you have stomach cancer just from the symptoms you've described. And you'll have great difficulties from this if you don't immediately begin these this specific medical therapy. Would you be okay with such an approach to treatment? Yet this is exactly what psychology does. In the book Psychology Under the Influence, the author says, in most other medical specialties, diagnoses are bound by biological markers, and thus outcomes can be easily quantified. However, in psychiatry, there are no biological markers that separate a patient with a disease, so-called, from someone without it, which renders psychiatry more vulnerable to bias since it relies more heavily on subjective judgments for making diagnoses and assessing symptoms. So here's a very brief uh bibliography for you to check out for yourself the evil pseudoscience of psychology. Um there's a book titled The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image, Toxic Psychiatry, Whatever Became of Sin. That was the first one I read. Deceptive Diagnosis, when sin is called sickness, ADHD, deceptive diagnosis, anatomy of an epidemic, magic bullets, uh, psychiatry, psychiatric drugs and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America, uh, psychiatry under the influence, which I just referenced, institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform, and psychiatry and its discontents. And there's many others. So one of the authors says, given such results, our society can only conclude this. The APA, American Psychological Association, has provided us with a diagnostic manual that, from a scientific perspective, cannot lay claim to being reliable or valid, which are the twin requirements for a medical manual to be clinically useful. However, as this chapter documents, the manual has proven to benefit the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the guild interests of the psychiatric profession. And what's labeled DSM, that's the diagnostic manual, five, will continue to nurture those ends. It doesn't help patients, it helps the pill companies and the people involved in psychiatry. What distinguishes psychiatry from other medical disciplines is that it does not have biological markers for its conditions, which means that it is more vulnerable to commercial influences when making decisions about diagnostic criteria. The pharmace the pharmaceutical companies, Spitzer said, were delighted. Yeah, I'll bet. There are few things in this world as wicked and as deceptive as psychology. It is one thing for the masses of foolish people in this country who are in love with pills and quick fixes, but it's profoundly sad when those who are supposed to have the spirit of discernment are duped and deceived by such obvious falsehoods. Here are some facts about psychology. First, there's virtually no truth in it. Secondly, it attempts to replace sin with so-called medical problems. And thirdly, no matter what it claims otherwise, it essentially removes human responsibility for choices and behaviors. I say that psychology has virtually no truth in it because all deception, in all deception, there's just enough truth to hook people. After all, that's how deception works. Deception must have some truth in it, or else it doesn't deceive people. Criminals don't counterfeit uh $25 bills, and the reason is obvious. There aren't any real $25 bills. Further, at its very best, psychology is a band-aid on a broken bone. It's like taping a piece of paper over the check engine light on one's dashboard. One doesn't see the warning light anymore, but the problem is still there. When Dr. Phil helps people without dealing with their sin through Jesus, he's putting a band-aid on their broken bone or taping a piece of paper over the check engine light of their life. Neither kind of psychology, talking or biological, and the biological is more dangerous, has any basis in actual science, much less medicine. Here's a fact. None of psychology's diagnoses result from some scientific or medical test. So there's no such thing as being bipolar, schizophrenic, ADHD, autism, and a whole lot more. There isn't even a blood test for the false label of a supposed chemical imbalance. Again, there is virtually nothing scientific or medical about virtually anything in psychology. Further, the pseudoscience of psychology, claiming it knows best what ails man's soul, has in this country quite successfully replaced sin with the unsubstantiated idea of a chemical imbalance or possibly genetic malfunction. If these are true, if people's emotional, mental, and behavioral problems are related to some medical issue and not sin, then there is no need for Jesus. This is psychology's goal. So who is right about man's problems? Jesus or Freud and all of his followers combined? Jesus said man's sin issues flow from his heart, his character. Freud and his followers claim otherwise, pointing instead to the brain and one's environment. The simple truth is this when people sow to the flesh they reap the fruit of the flesh. Every issue in which psychology has invented a disease, a disorder, or a syndrome, the behaviors and feelings can be traced to one or more of the fruits of the flesh, sin issues. Here's Paul. The acts of the flesh are obvious sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness and orgies and the like. I warn you, I warn you as I did before. Those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. He goes on to talk about it in 1 Corinthians. That was Galatians 5. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revelers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. Second Timothy, he says, But mark this, there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Here's what Jesus of Nazareth, who created human beings, said. Mark 7. What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of the person's heart, that evil thoughts come. Sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person. This is why Jesus' followers are urged, because of his mercy to Romans 12, not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will. There are, of course, various experiences that cause people mental and or emotional pain, such as divorce, loss of a loved one, prolonged illness, abuse, the ravages of combat and war, etc., that did not result from sins they committed. However, people who have experienced traumatic things that did not result from their own sin do not have a psychological illness. These people are not sick in the medical sense. There's nothing broken in their bodies. They are in emotional and mental pain, but not because of an actual illness. Thus taking poisonous chemicals called medicines is not the solution. It should be good news to hear that a person's psychological illness, so called psychological illness, is related to sin or to trauma, not to some made up disease, disorder, or syndrome for which a person must take dangerous chemicals pretending to be medicines. This is because. There's an actual and real solution for sin or trauma. Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus, the creator of human beings, confronted people with their sins that led to unhealthy behaviors, such as John 5.14. He also bound up the broken hearts of those who experienced some form of trauma, Mark 5, 24 through 34. And when necessary, he tossed demons, actual, real evil spirits, out of people's lives. Mark 5, 1 through 20. He never recognized anything approaching the modern idea of mental illness as being a person's problem. Was having a demon the ancient non-scientific way to say the person was mentally ill? And that that was just back then, when people weren't scientifically informed like we moderns are, why didn't Jesus, who knows what is alien human beings, simply explain that a demonized person didn't have an evil spirit, but rather was merely sick? The answer? Because the person wasn't mentally ill, but rather they had an actual demonic spirit that was impacting them. In fact, all human beings have complete control over their feelings, thoughts, and will, that is, their soul. In fact, even from birth, as babies, they make choices. People can and do choose sinful, unhealthy, and crazy things, thoughts and behaviors. Further, some people allow evil spirits to influence their feelings, thoughts, and will. Some have done this for so long they can't tell the difference between their feelings and thoughts from those of a demon. Some even give over control of their will to a demon. Giving people the supposed mentally ill power giving people the supposed mentally ill powerful chemicals to control their feelings, thoughts, and even their wills only makes the connection between the person and the demon or demons stronger. For these filthy spirits love to experience these mind-altering, emotion-suppressing, will-weakening chemicals. And because every human being has ultimate control over what he or she feels, thinks, and does, demons do not possess a person and thus control them by making them do what they want. Even the Holy Spirit does not possess a person and thus control their emotions, will, and thoughts. People are able to choose who they allow to influence them, whether it's people andor demons or Jesus. Next, here's one of psychology's most wicked deceptions. Baron von Kraft Ebbing used Latin and a medical diploma to turn what was considered sinful behavior into a sickness in his book, Psychopathia Sexualis. Freud and his sociates loved this idea and copied it copiously. Thus it seems all one needs in psychology is a Latin or Greek lexicon, and presto one can invent a mental illness. And as such, this has bec become one of psychology's supremely successful ways of selling mental illness to all Americans, including Christians, simply by attaching complex and official sounding names to give an aura of medical and scientific quality to sin or even normal human feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Then, when psychology joined with the potently powerful drug companies with their poisonous pills that masquerade as medications, Americans took debate, took line and sinker. For Americans, even Christians, love pills. Americans love anything that is quick, easy, and sciencey. But these chemicals are no medicines. They fix nothing. Instead, these chemicals produce the very issues they claim to help. This is a quote from one of the authors of one of those books. From a big picture perspective, the harm done in this instance of institutional corruption arises from a very simple fact. Our society, over the past 35 years, has organized itself in response to a narrative told by American psychiatry that was, in so many of its details, misleading. Our understanding of the biology of mental disorders, our use of psychiatric drugs, our spending on psychiatric services, and even our social policies arise from a story that has been shaped by the guild and pharmaceutical interests, as opposed to a narrative told by a medical profession that has shown an adherence to scientific principles and a commitment at all times to the best interests of patients. Those may be harsh words, but such is the comprehensive nature of the corruption documented in the previous chapters about psychology. It's one thing for unregenerated people, even the Christian eyes, to fall for psychology's lies and deceptions. It's an entirely different thing for those who consider themselves to have the spirit of truth, whose assignment is to lead them into truth, to ignore something as clear as what Paul tells the Christians in Colossae, chapter 2. See to it, as in its responsibility that no one takes you captive to hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Jesus. There's so very much more that can be said about the fake field of psychology and the devastatingly destructive impact it has had on the world since its creation, in addition to making those involved with it quite rich. The serious followers of Jesus of Nazareth should educate themselves with the facts about this horrific danger. When my children were little and I would put them to bed, reading the Bible to them, praying with them, maybe telling them a story about Jerry or Ned or Erica the giant, they did, and how much his or her mommy and daddy loved them. Sometimes I would also tell them this. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So the bridegroom king himself came, and he put Humpty Dumpty back together again. For he is the only one who can.