Hypocrisy

This is a episode about hypocrisy

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Good morning to all my listeners of Medicine Wheel Ministries, where we challenge the heart, the mind, and become better people. Higher understanding. And we work on just becoming better in the human experience. I'm your host, Bear. And um to all the new listeners who are doing this, I appreciate you coming by all our return visitors. Uh we've had over a thousand listens in over 11 countries now, and I just want to really, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of our listeners. And please spread the word. I know that we're not the uh typical clean cut edited podcast, but we're talking about things that are real, and uh I prefer to keep all the content raw and unedited so that you get the real message on how I, you know, speak and think and feel, you know, we all of trying to, you know, walk this life in a good way. Uh note though, uh, this is a podcast for mature audiences only, so please be advised that this is rated mature. 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Anyway, so today, you know, been paying attention to some stuff in the news, and you know, and I'm seeing a lot of it around too. And today we're just gonna talk about hypocrisy. Now, a lot of us commit this act and are not really aware that we do it half of the time. Some of us older generations are a little bit more hard-headed, and definitely our word uh means everything. Yeah, somebody shouldn't have to say I promise or I guarantee it or any of that to have something be their word. You know, a sense of honor and being a good person is if you give somebody your word, you gotta do everything you can to actually keep that word. Um it's about humility, it's about grace, it's about being a good person, it's about honesty, integrity. Now, honestly, we do forget stuff at times, and it's okay to admit, hey, I forgot. It's also okay to sit here and say, you know what, I was wrong. Well, if you don't know something, say, hey, I don't know. Um we all have to be open to new ideas or new ways of looking at things. Um, there might be a better way of doing something. You might have been doing something for 30 years, and it's the only way you know, and somebody 20 years old comes in and you're, you know, 60, but that 20-year-old may have a fresh idea that it's so far out of the box that nobody thought about before. Hypocrisy isn't necessarily purposeful at all times, but it can be very purposeful and even far more damaging when we do something that really, really contradicts something that we say that we believe in. And the specific incidence, and there's no coincidence to this, is that there is a church on the Wind River Reservation where this female pastor basically interrupted a cultural proceedings uh ceremony and basically claimed that everybody was satanic and idol worshipers and so forth. Let's get something straight right off the gat. You could not have slapped every real believer in the Bible in the face any harder by doing that. And any Christian who supports this woman on what she said about idol worshiping or anything towards demonic honestly has no idea about the face and spirituality of those indigenous people. And I want people to remember something. Before there was organized religion, there was spiritualism, and a lot of the the faith that I was raised around is called the original instruction. Because if you go back before organized religion, everybody around the world pretty much had a fairly commonality of you know, live well and don't shame, and you know, had a very sense of good decency and morals about them. So, you know, and living in balance with your surroundings so forth. Now, I'm not saying that everybody was like that, but Native Americans, um, particularly in the bad lands and the plains, tend to be some of the most impoverished people in the world, have the lowest mortality rates, have the greatest amount of poverty. Um it's honestly extremely sad. Um, but to sit here and be on their lands, which are considered sovereign nations and sovereign countries in themselves, and they have the grace enough, the humbleness enough to allow you to be on their lands. When you're not a tribal member, you're not affiliated to the nation, but yet they have the humility to say yes, we open our arms to you, and then you show up in the middle of a ceremony where they're saying thanks in their ways and their prayers are being heard, and you're going to say that they are demonic or idol worshipers, you are literally violating Matthew 7, 1 and 2. And the Bible is very clear about do not judge, that's you're to be judged as God. So you're telling me that this lady, who's a pastor, is stating the fact that she now has the authority of God, her voice is God, and any pastor, preacher, minister, uh whatever you want to call it, says that their voice is that of God, is the biggest hypocrite in the world. Because it's very clear that God doesn't speak directly to us because his voice is so powerful that it would destroy us. He speaks to angels or to nature or however we want to look at how we feel. He speaks to our heart. Um in the Native American thing that I was raised around, and I was also raised in the church as well. Part of my family were Christians, part of him Native American. Um we were taught, you know, pretty clearly that you know God speaks us through our hearts and his voice is too powerful, and but when you recognize, hey, the creator of all things made all of nature, took a breath, waited, and then made us. Well, we were an afterthought, and we had destroyed nature and natural balance and each other so much that the flood happened, and it doesn't matter what culture you look at, pretty much all of them that I've researched before even colonial contacts believed in some kind of flood story. And so when you have everybody that believes in that will then recognize that the creator basically hated us, he was gonna wipe us out. Uh, whether we look at the biblical story of Noah or we look at the uh the last magan uh uh maiden and the sacrifice of the eagle to become a man to save uh the children of the creator, whatever the story of you know, rebirth is for those particular cultures, we need to understand that we need to respect that. That's their right. That is not not our job to place judgment, it is not our job to cast stones, it is not our job to sit there and do that, you know, and it's not even just within that. Um, but it really, really pisses me off when somebody is saying that they have the power of God and are sitting there equivalent themselves to have the power of the Creator, they're placing themselves above all other people. And this woman in particular, she's not any pastor that I would ever recognize at all. If anything, she is the devil speaking. Because anybody who truthfully believes in the faith would realize the kind of harm that she is directly doing to innocent children, to elders, to the community, casting stones that ripple across entire worlds. You know, when I started this podcast um what, two and a half months ago, I thought, okay, I'll have a few, you know, local listeners. Well, we've got listeners now in eleven different countries. Eleven different countries. And I'm talking all the way in Europe, as far as you know, Poland and Germany and England and then South America and Japan. It's like wow. Just realizing that words have so much power. So we have to be careful and mindful of how we use our words. In my culture, when we were raised, we were told that you can speak things into existence. And there's been a lot of studies out there, there's a lot of people making millions off people at these seminars and everything else, and they always talk about the power of the mind and the voice and to speak things into existence and so forth. So there's there's you know actual proof of this being real. So when you sit there and you literally say that these people are committing idol worship and demonicism, well, isn't the cross a symbol of idolism? Because the cross is certainly not Christian, it goes back thousands of years before the Romans ever used it. The Jewish used it. Many ancient cultures used crucification. You know, and it's hard to you know sit here and go, oh well, Jesus died on a cross. Okay, how many other millions were crucified to the ages? I mean, at one point they say that you could go from Alexandria, basically Egypt, all the way to Rome, and a lot of roads were literally lined with crosses. If you were an enemy of the state, tried and convicted, you were crucified. Jesus was not the only one crucified. Millions were crucified before and after Jesus. So by using that symbology, could be considered to be an idol. It's how you use it. Christians have a cross, the Catholics have the you know the Virgin Mary or whatever, the Jews have the you know, Star of David, and uh you know natives have the medicine wheel, and we can go on this list for ever. So when you're literally holding something, then it's considered to be basically an idol. Um when we we're not gonna start a holy war here. The point is that we're not supposed to judge. So when we literally have somebody who is a leader, who's supposed to be helping us become better people, stronger people, to be more balanced with faith and spirituality, and being balanced within our homes, our hearts, our minds, with everything that the creator made. And we are saying that other people are doing it wrong. Well, we are basically saying that we're more powerful and we're better than God right there. That instant cast of judgment means that we are now saying that we possess the power higher than God because God created us all. We are all the way the Creator intended us to be, good or bad. How we use that power of that creation is what makes us human, good or bad. Because we're all created perfect for the moment we're conceived. But when we become adults, when we become conscience, not even adults, even young adults, even kids, but when we literally become conscience of our choice and we choose to take that power of creation and we use it in the wrong way or right way, we are literally taking the power of the divinity and using it in whatever way that we so choose. So when you have somebody who is a leader who's basically telling everybody else who follows her faith, these people are demons when they haven't done anything wrong. They're praying to the creator of all living things. Well, don't you pray to the creator of all living things? Just because it's different doesn't make it wrong. They're not asking anything of anybody. They're asking for the exact same principles that the Bible teaches about. Faith, humility, humbleness, grace, compassion, empathy, just being a good person who lives with a heart of compassion, and these people are so impoverished, you know, you want to talk about crimes. Crimes. Criminal. Why don't we take a good look at what is really happening? Because if you look at the tribes in this country who were civilized, quote unquote, who basically just, oh yeah, we'll do whatever you want, Lord Master. They've all got major casinos, they've got industries, they've got all this money. And they don't even really help their own people, which is extremely sad in its own regard. But then you look at a lot of tribes that stood up for their rights, their God-given rights, such as the Arapaho, the Sasoni, the Lakota, Dakota, Nakoda, uh all the bands of quote unquote Sioux, which is not even an actual trial blame, or the Apaches and the Comanches, and we can keep going on and on with these. But basically, the center of the United States, the breadbasket, the very people who stood up and said we will not allow the American waterways to be completely poisoned off for interests that are not even in the best interest of the people. They didn't ask for anything. But take a look at the amount of poverty. The average income is like $3,000 a year. So I want all of my listeners in America to think about that. That your average income is three thousand dollars a year. Hardly no medical care, no jobs, as much as ninety percent unemployment ratio. A good portion of all the houses are condemned, but still having to be lived in because you gotta have shelter, no running water, no electricity to a majority of them places, which the entire time that atrocities hasn't changed. And they don't hate, they speak with compassion, they try to have a sense of humor through it all. All the suffering. Well, wouldn't you say that that makes these people more Christ-like? More closer to God for the amount of humility and grace that they show, even through the extreme amount of suffering. Now if you're truthfully there to have a church and help these people, what are you helping with? Teaching them the words of a book that has been written and rewritten and rewritten by man's hands, by monks, by kings. Reinterpretations combined into one big book. You know, in the uh 1800s there was actually a committee put together by the United States and Canada governments on what would be in the American slash Canadian English speaking Bible. No joke, look at your history. So when we have governments and we have people that think that they have more power than the Creator, and these leaders who are there, okay, teach us the words of the book. That's great. But when you don't actually do anything to be part of that community, when you don't embrace that community that is so gracefully opened their home, their home, their lands to you, and then you're going to spit in their face and create the biggest atrocity of hypocrisy out there. It's absolutely wrong on every level. We as a people need to remember that we are not the voice of God. So when you go to church this Sunday and you go in and you see a newcomer come in, and they're not dressed in Paula shoes, and they're not able to give to the offering plate, and they're not wearing a tie or a dress shirt, or it's aka Sunday's best, because they're some poor homeless soul. Coming out the street, or there's some blue collar just came off the long line and didn't want to miss a sermon. Why are you gonna huff at them or get snippy at them or roll your eyes? Or the moment you allow yourself to have any kind of cast on judgment, you yourself are committing a sin of hypocrisy. You yourself are violating the very principles that it says not to. So go under your book, Matthew 7, 1 and 2. Because it's very clear. It is extremely clear. And Jesus, a man of faith, literally was known as the gospels and the stories go of him for being the exact opposite and a hypocrite. Oh well she's a prostitute, and he'd protect her. Oh, they're a homeless bum. They're a beggar. And he'd give that beggar the bread before he gave it to somebody who was well endowed. So you gotta understand the misbalances and the atrocities we create ourselves. And yes, we're all human, we all make mistakes. But we have got to strive to be better than that. At every level. So don't think that, oh well, they're this or this. Who cares? You know, there's certain places to where you can't even post anything on Facebook because everybody's so toxic. Everybody's so toxic. And they post up, oh look, they were in jail on all these mugshots or all this, oh they did this 20 years ago, okay. Did they serve their time, they did their thing. But what skeletons, what dirty laundry do you got in your closet? If you don't want people freaking casting your failures or mishaps or mistakes for the whole world to see, then what right do you have to cast stone and do the exact same thing to everybody else? In one of my episodes, I talked about casting shade and doing these things. And you know, it's not just on this lower level. We do it on so many levels of our daily life. Tell our kids, do as I say, not as I do. What does that mean? That you have the ability to be a hypocrite? So then when you yourself tell your child, do as I say, not as I do, well, you're opening the door to hypocrisy. And since kids learn more from example, you're now teaching your kid to basically be a liar, to be a betrayer, to not have empathy or compassion, and telling them, oh, it's okay. Because they've seen their parents do it. We have to break and rise above these things, create a higher standard for ourselves on all levels. And as far as this lady is, this pastor, you're on a foreign soil. You are on a sovereign tribal nation. And any Christian follower needs to absolutely cast her right out and say, this will not be tolerated. You will not sit here, cast stones, and condemn these people who are already suffering in immense ways. We are not going to tolerate you speaking up for God's wish or God's rule when you are absolutely violating the very teachings of Jesus. Teachings in the Bible. Because one of the greatest sins is doing exactly what she's doing. So Christian followers need to rise up and tell this woman you're no longer going to be a pastor, and we are no longer going to follow this toxic fate. Because you're not going to bring that bad medicine, that toxicity, into your own home. And when you support somebody like this and what she's doing, you absolutely are violating God's law. And you are bringing that bad medicine into your home to affect your spouses, your kids, all of your generations. And if you won't tolerate somebody kicking in your door, raping your wife or kids, killing frickin' your neighbor, stealing everything you have, why is it you're tolerating somebody who's committing even a greater sin than physical? She is literally harming your good name. And she's harming your spirit and the emotions, and no scars are left for life. If you're not gonna tolerate that kind of poison in your own home, then you need to cast this woman out. She's been asked politely to leave and she refuses, thinking that she has the power of God. Well, and she's nothing more than a mortal human. And the greatest example again could be Jesus died on the cross for sin. He himself, a sinner like us all. We are all born sinners, and we all die. That is the one guarantee that we all have. Life is short, it's precious. So with that being said, I will light this age and I will send prayers for enlightenment, and I will forgive her for her transgressions for what she is doing to my cousins, because in the end, we are all cousins, regardless of our race, regardless of our skin color, regardless of our face, we are all children of the Creator. I want to thank you for listening to this episode. Again, like us on Facebook. 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