Processed Foods

Say what you want to, or think what you want to, but as God's people, we are not to allow ourselves to eat any and everything just because the world calls it spiritual or religious.  What has ruined and spoiled the spiritual stomachs of God's people in these last days, is the processed church foods we have been given to eat to strengthen our spiritual lives.

If we are not being fed the true word of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ, presented and prepared for us according to the will of God, there is a good chance what we have been given is something processed just to satisfy the taste of what many want to hear and eat.

Processed foods come from processed religious leaders who are false.  If the leaders of God's people are processed and false, so is the words and teachings they prepare to feed us.  Processed foods will never strengthen us, but in fact weaken us, and leave us lacking in the spiritual nourishment we so desperately need.

Transcript

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:29

I am thine always thou art the I am the faith may and hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you hallelujah praise God praise God hallelujah thank you thank you thank you thank you Lord we thank hallelujah we thank God this morning for another blessed day I welcome all of you to our conference line and also our podcast this morning uh so glad to be with you one more time to be able to bring you the word of God uh during these services God bless you God keep you we're gonna get into the word this morning uh and I will give you what God has given me many of us are very much aware and spiritually conscious to this fact that we are all living in an evil day perilous times the world has gone extremely corrupted and riddled with chaos and confusions of every kind ungodliness is accepted throughout the land without any reverential fear of God many are deceiving others while also being deceived themselves life is not valued and humanity has lost a lot of its characteristics there are whirlwinds of evil in our homes the demonic spirits in us as parents are breeding new demonic spirits in our own children and yet we tell ourselves that we are good godly parents but I tell you that in due time we will all see and we shall behold that we have only been priming and prepping our children to be cast into the fires of hell damnation and destruction and we ourselves are going to go along with them if we don't get ourselves together. See this world has turned away from God which is the which is see to turn away from God is to choose death over life and death awaits all those who have chosen death if you want him he he'll he'll abide you but this should not be what we want as people of God the reason and understanding of it all is that we have chosen to feed ourselves with our own ways dining at the table of sin becoming gluttons of the food that is set before us planted in the world's wicked gardens then served to us bountifully on the devil's table here we are ordering meal after meal from his restaurant of which he has disguised and established as our Sunday morning churches and our so-called spiritual gathering places are we yet not aware do we yet not know that it is our godly responsibility to watch and be aware what we are eating spiritually is our responsibility we are to know what is set before us knowing who has prepared it and who it is that is serving it unto us wandering in the wilderness about the children of Israel wandering while they was wandering in the wilderness for 40 years the word of God teaches that God had to humble the children of Israel with hunger you read this in Deuteronomy after which he fed them with mana from heaven to make them know that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God this is how we should live spiritually and this is what is not happening in the world today we're not being fed the spiritual food of the word of God as God intended it to be and these things ought not to be see not Jesus also make this very thing clear also when he was confronted by the devil in the book of Matthew when he stated the same thing man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God what has been written by God listen to me what has been written by God cannot be changed. It is forever settled in heaven is the word of God our meat is the word of God our drink is the word which have proceeded out of his mouth our everyday food and spiritual sustenance it saddens me, brothers and sisters and grieves my spirit to see the process so-called biblical food that is being served and eaten in our churches today words given unto us which did not come from the mouth of God but out of the mouth of false men and women feeding the people false processed spiritual food what we feed upon spiritually we fail to realize that that is what we become whether we are knowledgeable of this fact or no we have eaten what should not have been eaten and this morning's message with the help of the Holy Ghost this morning's message processed foods all of us have at one time or another eaten processed foods of some kind it's all in our grocery stores on every shelf down every eye those foods that they process overly to make them good to us and taste good to us but not good for us physically. Knowing that the continuously eating of such processed foods will take its toll on us over time if we cease not in the indulgence of such food if we just keep on eating it and gutten that's I'm talking natural right now I'm flipping in a minute but what is more vital in this life is knowing if we have also endurance in the feasting of processed spiritual food people giving us what they want of their own opinion preaching messages that don't have no scripture in it don't have nothing in it about the word of God philosophy messages messages that ain't doing no good for your spiritual man is there any hesitance when it comes to us watching what we put in our spiritual mouth and digesting in our spiritual guts are we sure and very sure that what is served and prepared for us on Sunday mornings is the words of God or the words of those who act as though they are God Jesus says this in the book of John He says hallelujah hallelujah Jesus says this I am the bread of life hallelujah I'm the bread of life I'm the food he said this is the bread which cometh down from heaven that man may eat this what you could hope to eat that man may eat thereof and not die this stuff that they are giving us today they this is not going to help us to live it's not going to help us to gain eternal life only the bread of life which is Jesus he said that man may eat. This is what we should eat if they're not giving you the word of God you need to distance yourself. Well the Bible says separate yourself from me Jesus says this I'm coming out of John that sixth chapter verse 51 said I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread listen at this he shall live forever. Hallelujah and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world Jesus gave us all we're supposed to have and this is what people be giving us telling us what he said whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood has eternal life he's talking spiritual and I will raise him up at the last day if what we are eating is not Jesus it is most definitely spiritually processed food if what we are eating is not the bread of life hallelujah it is most certainly the bread of death there is no eternal life in what some pulpit preachers nor what some speakers with microphones are feeding to God's people ain't no life in that the only food needed for our spiritual lives the only bread of life which gives us eternal life the only living word which proceedeth out of heaven from God for us is Jesus all else and anything else is spiritually processed food not fit to be eaten by your spirit or digested by our spirit man and it definitely did not come from God I don't care how good they sound that don't mean nothing to me see but just as naturally processed food lacks vital nutrients for the natural body what they do to it they make up what it lacks in nutrients and and vitamins for your body they make up by having a taste that the mouth loves and likes and oh do we love what shall never taste good. Long as it tastes good we eat it we don't care what it is causing us health wise or our body we don't care how many calories it adds to the weight of our figures and our physique the sugary content and sodium intake doesn't matter to us because it tastes so good. The trap of eating natural processed foods is the taste the flavors that appeal to our palate we have developed the overwhelming can't stop eating it mentality because of the good taste for the wrong things the taste for it can become our addictions and when our addictions have set in comes our weaknesses behind it. Now you you just got to go get you a bag of them chips every time you turn around I'm talking natural but I'm gonna flip this let's flip it okay now let's flip these things over to the spiritual side in the last days the desire for what sounds good to our ears and what makes us feel good or what have us feeling a certain way after we have heard certain things will become more important to many instead of what truly is spiritually good for us. For natural processed foods to cause and do us harm listen they must be eaten and enter in through our natural mouths but our spiritual mouth does not function as our natural mouth do in fact spiritually processed foods enter in through what listen to me now this morning this is the mouth of your of our spirit how we how we eat stuff that's spiritually processed food the mouth of the spirits I call gates that's what I call gates to the body some of these gates being and I say I don't I don't discover about nine of them but I'm these four I'm finna give you these gates being the ear gate we let stuff in the mind gate let stuff get in our mind the heart gate and the eye gate it's about nine of them but these four here these four here is what I'm I'm pinpointing this morning because of what we let in spiritually as far as our spiritual food. But these four tend to be the greatest access through which we allow the wrong things to enter into our lives especially those things for which we feed our spiritual man coming through one of these gates we let the gates open see just as processed food can take on a look that doesn't even resemble or look like real food something stuff they overly process it so much it don't look like real food and don't even taste like real food. But they they they give it a taste an artificial taste for you to like it and keep eating it get addicted to it so also does a lot of what we are hearing and receiving spiritually on Sunday morning. It don't resemble the word of God don't even sound the word of God because there ain't no word in it. Don't taste to our spirit like it's the word of God nor has anything to do with the real spiritual food that is the word of the Almighty God we have opened up our gates to the feeding of this spiritual process food of worship and praise our worship and praise is process this spiritually processed junk food of preaching and teaching is just process now just for the crowd just to folks pay the offering just to wow the audience for entertainment purposes now. This spiritually processed chips and cooking snacks of pretense and hypocrisy so many leaders are not real now because they ain't if you ain't real with God how you gonna be real with the people and if you ain't real with the people you ain't real by what you're telling the people and teaching and preaching the people is all pretense a lot of it ain't gonna say all a lot of it is just pretense and hypocrisy the results have left us with a high ungodly sugar and calorie intake spiritually with an addiction to keep us in the nonstop eating mode of being deceived in certain services and church gatherings we have allowed the enemy to process the real truth away from us which is our daily break and the real anointing which is the presence and spirit of God we have allowed the enemy to move that away out of our spiritual diet see what the enemy is trying to do is trying to take God out of our diet taking Jesus out of our daily bread don't want Jesus to be our living bread don't want Jesus to be the one we feed upon because as long Jesus as long we're feeding on Jesus we are connected to him and we have eternal life because in him is life see because we have eaten so much of the wrong spiritual food we have deceived ourselves into thinking and believing that if it tastes this good or if it sounds this good coming from a certain person that it must be indeed good for our spirits and we've been deceived how wrong we are hallelujah and how wrong we have been because our we put Now focus on the man or on the woman or on the person up there because they got a microphone and they cut their pulpit. The devil have taken over these pulpits. Can you can we not see? It's not hard to see. I'm gonna give you a little something. Let me give you a little something about the brother in the Bible. See if you know who this is. Listen to what's how the Lord is talking to him. He says this. And when I look, hallelujah. Behold, a hand was sent unto me. And lo, isn't that this? A roll of a book was therein. God is appearing to this young man. And God stretches out his hand before him. And there was a roll of a book back then, because they used scroll. That's why I say roll. But they used scrolls back then. But later on in life, now we have books. But back then they had scrolls, which was rolled up. He said, A roll of a book was in his hand. Listen to this. Moreover, he said unto me, Son of Man, this is what God tells me, eat that thou find. In other words, what you find written in this book, in this robe, he said, Eat this robe. Eat. This is what you're going to be eating. And go speak unto the house of Israel. You can't, in other words, you can't go speak to children of Israel until you get this, the word in you. And these people that are trying to give us the word today, how can they speak the word unto us when the word ain't in them? Because what the word they given has not been given to them by God. Listen to what this young man said. He said, He said, So I opened my mouth. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I opened my mouth. And he caused me to eat that roll. God put it up to his mouth and made him eat. And he said unto me, this is what God said, God said unto him, Son of Man, cause thy belly to eat. Get it in your belly, get in your guts, and fill thy bowels with this robe. Fill thy guts with the word that's written on this roll, written in this scroll. That I give you. Eat what I gave you. Somebody, what somebody else gave, eat what I give you. I'm gonna go back and read that again. He said to me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat and feel, get full of it, and fill thy bowels with this robe that I give thee. Then this young man said, This, then did I eat it? And it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. It was sweet to my mouth. It was good to me. And the word of God is always good. I want y'all to read that something. That was Brother Ezekiel. Read that in Ezekiel. What should be the satisfying sustenance of our spiritual hunger? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Should only be the word that God has given us. The sweetness of his truth. The role of the book, that is his word, which he has given for us to eat out of his holy hand. God has given us what we're supposed to eat. But we are so many in the world they are rejecting the very word of God. And if you reject the word of God, you're rejecting God because they are one. If the men and women in ministry are not feeding us the manner of the word of God sent down for us to feed upon, then I say unto thee, away with them. And the fake food that they attempt to pass off as God's word, away with them and what they bring to the table. I don't want it, I won't eat it, I refuse. Let me tell you something. Didn't I just tell y'all in the beginning? We're in the evil day, y'all. These are corrupt, wicked times. And behind, see a lot of people looking at it with their natural eyes, but the whole thing, why the chaos is so strong naturally, because there's some strong, wicked stuff going on behind the scenes spiritually in these people. In these corrupt people, in these people that's running the country, in these people that doing what they're doing. There is an extreme, high, volatile, wicked, evil, spiritual element going on behind the scenes. And we are going to have to get just like then Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. When they refuse to eat the meat and drink the wine that never could neither one of them to eat and drink. And they refused to eat and drink the king's meat and refused to drink the king's drink. Because it was slaced with sin. It was slaced with idolatry. It was not, it was totally bored of anything that had to do with God. And y'all know the story? Just match up some beans and some oatmeal or something like that. We don't want that then. And we today don't take our salvation or our souls as seriously as they did because anything we hear, we think because they put use the word God, because they use the name Jesus, that they must be safe and okay. Don't we know that the deception of the devil? This is why we must know the word of God for ourselves. To know and be on God from being deceived. Being aware, sober, and watchful. We are in the last days, and deception is going to be a big fate in deceiving a lot of God's people. Jesus is going to tell you in a minute. He's going to say he's going to deceive many. I don't plan to be in that number, and I don't want you to be in that number. The truth is, what we should be filled with, and our spiritual venue, down in our spiritual bowels, like God told us, told Ezekiel. I tell you this, my brothers and my sisters, anything else is just spiritually processed food. Not good for nothing. This is what Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 4. This is what Paul told Timothy. He said, For the time, hallelujah, hallelujah. Now he said this thousand years ago, but it's already him now. He said, For the time will come, is already him, when they will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lust, after what they want, shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. See, the more the devil gets a lot of people accustomed to the taste of processed food and deceiving them and the thing that it's found doctrine. This is what he says. He said, after their own love they shall heap, and they just keep heaping it on, keep heaping it on their plate. That's heaping it. Greed is not for it. But the greed is the greed is for the wrong thing. I'm gonna read it again. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. They don't want the truth. Sound doctrine is the truth. That ain't what they want now. You got to entertain folks now. You got to have a show going on. And they got to be entertained the whole time they're there. He said, but after their own love, because it ain't what they wanted, they shall heat to themselves, teachers. They like going to those folks that teach those prosperity of high in the sky messages, full of philosophy, and human opinion, but void of the word of God. They shall heat to themselves, teachers have an itching ear. They want something that sounds good to the ear. And they shall turn, this is this verse verse 4, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth. Take over witness against a lot of us, because some of us we know we hear the truth, but how can you turn away from the truth if you didn't know that was the truth? He said they shall turn away their ears from the truth. Oh, so you knew it was truth, but then ain't what you want to hear. And shall be turned unto fables. Fables are lies. You would not think in this that people would want to hear lies, but I told y'all we're in the last day, we're in the evil day. This is what a lot of people want now to be lied to. Because lies can be made to sound so pleasant to the ear, because they don't want nobody to tell them they're sinning and going to hell. They don't want nobody to point out their wrongs that they've done. If we grow up eating a variety of processed foods, we run a good chance of turning down and rejecting real home-cooked meals. So do many when it pertains to spiritual food. When they do hear the truth, it don't sound right to them. When they do hear the good news of the gospel, it sounds foreign to them. It doesn't sound right in their ears. So the enemy jumps in and deceives by calling the truth that they are hearing a lie, and the lies that they are hearing the truth. Total deception. Paul writes to Timothy and says that they shall turn their ears from the truth. They want spiritually processed food and turn onto fables. Fables are lies, which can sound almost like truth, because they are laced with the sugary, sweet substance of what itching ears like to hear. It is a reason why Jesus said what he said to the people in the book of Mark, when he says this. What you hear it might not be the word of God. What you hear might be deceiving you from the truth. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Hear the truth, hear the word of God. And he said it, take heed. In other words, the responsibility is on our shoulder. You need to take heed. I need to take heed. Anyone that's striving to see the Lord and to see his face needs to take heed what you hear in these last and evil days. I don't care if they use a script in here and I in the midst of what they're saying. The truth is the truth by itself. He said, Take heed what you hear. With what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you. And to you that hear shall more be given. If you commit yourself to hearing the truth, God's gonna make sure that you continue to hear more of the truth because he's gonna connect you to somebody that's but God still got a people now. God still got a feel. But if you commit yourself and take the responsibility to making sure you're hearing what is right, and I keep saying this, but I'm saying before I say it again. The number one way to make sure that you are hearing what is right, y'all, we all got to get in this word for ourselves so that we will know when we hear the truth that it's something we have read in the word of God ourselves. And we'll know when we're not hearing the word of God. We gotta commit ourselves to the word of God by spending time reading, meditating, reading, meditating over and over again and get it in our guts and get it in our bed, just like he told Ezekiel. And this is the area where we don't want to do. I'm telling you, the word of God is key. I close my eyes and go to sleep. Telling the world that the when it comes down to it and when we get to the day of sins of the Lord, we're gonna see that it was the word of God has been the key to this whole thing. And you will think, knowing that the word of God is the key to this whole thing, that we would have endosed and died off in it more deeply than we have. The word is the key, y'all. Because that's the word of God and the truth that we need, the spiritual food that we need is in there. You won't find no processed food in the word of God.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I'll leave you with this.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 37:01

That you may know the truth, and that you will be sober and watchful, that your minds and your hearts be not deceived with spiritually processed words, disguised as food for your soul. The enemy's hidden agenda behind it all is deception and every evil work. To tear down the body of Christ, to attempt to confuse those who make up the true churches of God, and to have us all miss out on living in heaven with the Lord in eternal life. That's his biggest goal there, to have us miss heaven. And deception, having folk deceived and to thinking that they're going, but they're not going, that's his biggest one, his biggest weapons. He wants us to think we're going, but he knows because we have been feeding at his table, eating that spiritually processed food, he knows we ain't going as long as we stay blind to what he's giving us. But if we got into the word, the word would shine a light and open our eyes. And he would be defeated because we would be totally dependent on Jesus. I'm gonna give you this what Jesus said. I'm gonna let you go. That we've just been gobbling, googling up. Jesus says this. And he was furring to this in the coming of the last days. Have you ever read Matthew the 24th chapter? Jesus answered and said unto them, take heed that no man deceive you. Listen to what he's saying now. That means no man deceive you. That means them that got the devil in him. Because if a man deceive you, the devil is in him to deceive you. We got to know these spirits. We got to have a discerning of spirit to know if somebody comes to you trying to deceive you, they grin and showing all their teeth. They're acting like they're anointed of the people of God. But deception is behind those eyes. Deception is behind their personality and their characters, and the spirit of discernment will reveal that to you. If you are in Christ Jesus, Jesus, take heed that no man deceive. This time, anybody in mankind, don't let them deceive you. You better believe what I'm telling you, and not what they're saying. Because the people that try to see you let you know, they'll tell you everybody going to heaven, and that's a lie. Have you believed that you can you are right how you live in? You ain't got to God understand and know your heart, that's a lie. Yeah, God gonna know a lot of people's hearts wasn't right, and a lot of people's hearts was not for him. And Jesus, I'm going on what Jesus said. Take heed that no man deceive you. If you ain't talking the word of God, hey, listen. It might not look like I can close my ears, but I can shut my ears. I can't. I can close your eyes. But see, we ain't just because we hear the thing, that's what he said. He d has to let him hear, that means you control, you can hear, but you ain't got to let it get in. You ain't got to let it get in your mind. You ain't got to let it get in your heart just because you heard that. Oh, I hear you, but I don't hear you. I hear you, but I ain't receiving that. Ain't no word in that. I'm not gonna receive that. You can talk all day till your lips fall off. If it ain't the word of God, it ain't getting in here. I'm not letting it in my heart. I'm not letting it get in my mind. I'm not gonna accept it and receive it as the truth. Take heed that no man deceive you. This is what Jesus said now. He said, For many it is, many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ. This world, people in this world, the devil, and a lot of people in these last days are gonna get so bold that a lot of them are gonna walk around saying that they Jesus, saying that they are the Christ. Just to do because they know people are looking for Jesus' return. They're looking for Jesus to come back here. And a lot of them are gonna disguise themselves and fool a lot of people by perpetrating to be Christ before the real Christ gets back here. And Jesus tell them that many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ. They ain't gonna have no fear of lying using Jesus' name. They ain't gonna have no fear of the punishment that's gonna come upon them to call themselves Jesus, the Son of God. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ. Listen, now this is what I want y'all to remember this part, and shall deceive many. You know that's a sad meaning right there, because that's saying a lot of people gonna believe these devils. A lot of people gonna believe these false pastors, a lot of people gonna go believe these false evangelists because they were not equipped in the word of God for themselves, and the enemy had them so accustomed to eating processed foods that they were not able to distinguish between what is real food and what is processed food. And many, Jesus said, shall be deceived. But see, you and I don't have to be in that number. You don't have to be in that number of those that are deceived. You and I should be striving to be in that number whose eyes are open, who see through the deception, the corn artist, the false men and women in ministry. We should be able to see through that and refuse, like the Hebrew boys, to eat the devil's meat and to drink the devil's drink, and refuse to eat anything that has been processed to look like the real thing. Refuse to receive anything that's not the real word of God, because we are not people who eat processed food, we are people who eat the word that God has given us at his own hand.

SPEAKER_03 44:15

God bless you. God bless you.