Complete in thee, no work of mine Could take, dear Lord, the place of thine Thy blood hath pardoned but for me And I am now complete in thee Yea, justified, O blessed thought, And sanctified salvation wrought, Thy blood hath pardoned not for me, And glorified I too shall be. supply, and no good thing to me denied. Since thou my portion, Lord, wilt be, I ask no more complete in thee. Yea, justify, O blessed thought, and sanctify salvation wrought. Thy blood hath barred and bought for me, and glorified I too shall be. Complete indeed! No more shall sin Thy grace has conquered rain within Thy voice shall bid the tempter flee And I shall stand complete in thee. Yea, justified, O blessed God, and sanctified, salvation brought, thy blood hath pardoned God for me, and glorified I too shall be. Dear Savior, when before thy bar Old tribes and tongues assembled are, Among the chosen I shall be at thy right hand. Complete in thee. Yea, justified, O blessed thought, And sanctified, salvation wrought, Thy blood hath pardoned naught for me. and glorified I, too, shall be. Yea, Joseph, I, O blessed God, and sanctified salvation brought, thy blood hath pardoned blood for me, and glorified I, too, shall be. Some may walk on mountains and drink that mountain air But others are not suited to stay for long up there It seems I've seen more valleys lately in my pilgrim way The sun is often hiding and the clouds are often grey Oh, I've not seen the sunset from the mountaintop in years And I've not seen the stars shine from up where it's bright and clear But I have never lost my faith in sunshine and in stars I know that mountaintop cannot be far So keep on climbing pilgrim And don't give way to fear In the mountain or the valley The Lord is always near And He knows every step you take You'll never lose your way The path He puts your feet upon cloudless day. Sometimes we see the journey and so forget the end. But if we keep on holding to the hand of God our friend, One day the clouds will break apart and suddenly we'll see The mountaintop is right beneath our feet Oh, I've not seen a sunset from the mountaintop in years And I've not seen a star shine from up where it's bright and clear But I have never lost my faith in sunshine and in stars I know that mountaintop cannot be far I know that mountaintop cannot be far Hello. Good afternoon. All right. I hope you're all doing well out there. We'll give you some chance to get on here, everybody, to get moving here and get on. We're gonna look at a few things here today and have a good understanding of a few things. Hopefully, Lord willing, anyway, we'll get to that in a second here. I don't wanna keep it, I don't wanna start quite yet, but I want you to be thinking about some of the things. Siri just went off thinking that I was trying to talk to her, which I'm not, that nosy broad. Always in my business. Always getting in my business. Anyway, you ought to forgive my throat here. I might have to have Luke make me some I got some cinnamon tea black tea there Luke. Can you can you make me some of that with? with two of those two things of cinnamon tea and Yeah, that'd be great. It's in that it's inside the cinnamon teas the cinnamon black tea. It's inside next to the the box there the other way the offering box there The unmarked offering box should be inside there in that shelf. You see that shelf in there? Yep, there you go right there. In the unmarked offering box that is not a neon, that is not shining, pay here. And no, I don't have little children walking around passing out offering or walking around with offering plates, giving that look of innocence at four years old that no one can say no to when they have to give an offering. Who could say no to that four year old kid, look at you not moving until you put something in and then giving you that look like you stinking cheapskate. Is that all you're going to put in there? I'm just kidding. I don't know if I have a cold. I don't know what I have. I got a lot of things. My throat is kind of, I don't know. It sounds funny. I preached for four hours yesterday. That might have something to do with it. I, I, in the morning I preached a message for an hour and a half. Wasn't it Luke? An hour and a half. Yeah, fill it all the way up with unleaded. Yep. There you go and and then after that in the afternoon I started a new series that I have not Put online as of yet It's based off David clouds book keeping the kids and We have a lot of children in our church. We have a lot of young couples that we have young couples in our church and lots of little children And it deals with parenting children in this world. And I have not put that on there yet. I don't know if I will. But anyway. And I have that series. Then I started Another series, well, I didn't start it. I continued Keech's Catechism that I do in the afternoon. That's just for the church only. I don't put that online. That's to teach the church. And then every other week, I'm going to teach an hour of Baptist history. Every other Sunday, I'm going to teach at least an hour of Baptist history. That I will probably put online. So lots of things, lots of fun things ahead. And we'll probably, I'll probably post the, I think I will post the keeping the kids. Yeah, I think I will. No, I don't have a cold really, I don't think. Anyway, I just talked a lot yesterday, that's what I think. Not to mention pastoring people and talking to people and then I just went for a two and a half mile walk or two mile walk outside. So, Oh, here we go. We're going to get into the weed. We're going to get deep into the weed. We're going to talk about marijuana. And oh boy, are the potheads going to come out from everywhere. trying to justify smoking the sticky icky. There's no justification for it. I know what I got saved from. Thanks, Luke. Appreciate it. I know what I got saved from. Telling you right now, I know what the Lord saved me out of. But anyway, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about some of these things. I've got a bunch of things. Let's see here. Let's get to some things here. All right. I think we'll start with this one. I think we'll start with this one. Now, this is government here, or this one's not. This one is an independent study. But we're going to start with some of this, and then we're going to move on. And, uh, yeah, I hope everybody had a good weekend. And, uh... Well, Jeremy, of course you'd disagree with it. People like to smoke dope and get high. People like to eat stinkin' Cheetos and licorice mixed with ice cream. Right? People like to eat big bags of Skittles and be like, yeah, man, let's eat big bags of Skittles, man, and sit there all day and look like this. It's for my cataracts, man. Yeah, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is. Oh, man. I'm telling you, man. Man, you ain't going to fool somebody that smoked dope. You ain't going to fool me, man. Oh, man. I wouldn't save my whole life, man. You ain't going to fool me with this topic, that is. All right. Let's see here. Well, we're going to talk about some things here, but I want to show you something first here. I want to direct your attention. Whoops, I got to switch screens. Not that one. Not that one. OK, Luke, which one is it? Which one do I switch to here? So I can switch to this one. Yeah. Oh, there it is. All right. There we go. There we go. I got a lot of back pain, man, but I don't smoke no weed for it. Tell you that right now. I'm not going to eat like six candy bars all that stuff and eat licorice and ice cream. Here we go. Let's look at this word, pharmakia. I wonder if they'll say it for us. I love it when they say it. Let's see. What is that? Sometimes they pronounce it for you. That'd be awesome. Look what this word means. The use of medicine, drugs, or spells. Sorceries. Sorceries. All right, now let's look at that word. Let's go right here. That word is 15 times in some form in the scriptures. So pharmakia is the same word as sorcery or sorceries. So what are the end time sins that the Bible says? Revelation chapter 9, please Verse number 21 neither repented they of their murders Nor of their sorceries Nor of their fornication nor of their thefts Okay, so what do we have here today in our world today? Well what we have today in our world is is a drunken, fornicating, thieving bunch of wicked people. The two sins that they would not repent of, look at this, another witness, Revelation 28, but the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burned with fire and brimstone. which is the second death. What do we have here? Sorceries. Revelation 18, 23. And the light of the candle shall shine no more at all in them, and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth, for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Let me share something with you there on the path to truth. Let me help you with something. Taking an Advil or an ibuprofen is not the same thing as getting stoned, getting high, and now off the new weed that's out there, practically tripping. Are you serious? How in the world can you compare an anti-inflammatory to smoking dope or eating brownies and acting like you're crazy. There's no comparison to the two, none whatsoever. You have to be an absolute dishonest, lying, Person to make that comparison and no, I don't believe in vaccinations and I don't preach for people to get vaccinations So get off of your goofy arguments because they don't work here It's nonsense Trying to tell me that smoking dope is the same take it a Tylenol man. You're a druggie There you go, man. Listen, man, I've taken a lot of ibuprofen in my life, and it never made me want to eat three bags of Cheetos. Let's be real here. I never ate two bags of licorice taking an ibuprofen in my life. You know the truth. Come on. All right. The Bible says they wouldn't repent of that. So what does this matter? Sorceries? Sorceries. Well, Jeffrey Adams, I'll tell you another thing. I drank a cup of coffee in my life and I never, and I never gotten high off of it yet. There's a big difference. Big difference in a cup of coffee. You know it, I know it, and every pothead, okay, stop smoking pot and drink some coffee then. There you go. There's your answer. Let's see if you'll do it. Let's see if you'll start drinking some good old fashioned Folgers coffee instead of smoking pot. Let's see if that happens. I bet you won't do it. I'm not advocating for Tylenol. I'm not a spokesperson for Tylenol. This isn't a paid advertisement for Advil. Everyone knows with common sense that there's a difference in a cup of coffee, that there's a difference in a cup of coffee and smoking weed. If it wasn't, you'd be drinking coffee instead of smoking weed. It's like that's the biggest duh factor of all Those arguments are so stupid. They're so ridiculous So Let's talk about Let's talk about this. What does the Bible say? It says they wouldn't repent of it. I really believe that the Bible is showing us that the two end time sins, the two end time sins are sorcery and fornication. Now, how does that relate in our world today? Well, what does that word, Kyle, seriously, nobody's saying that three pots of coffee are good for you and three energy drinks a day, okay? I get it. How can anybody do this with this argument? How do you people feel honest making this argument? How do you feel honest comparing a cup of coffee to weed? How do you do that when I smoked pounds of it? You can't do that to me, man. I smoked pounds of it. You will never be able to convince me of that ever in your life. You will. And I took all kinds of drugs and I ate mushrooms and I did it all. So you're not going to sit here and tell me that you're going to make a comparison with a cup of coffee and weed. Okay. Quit smoking weed and drink coffee. It's so dishonest. It's so absolutely dishonest to try to make that argument. Completely dishonest. I mean, I don't even know how you do it with a straight face. It's that ridiculous. It's unbelievable how you can actually do that. No, what you're trying to do is justify pot. That's what you're trying to do. Stop lying. Stop being a pathological, wicked, devilish liar. Stop it. Because that's what you're doing. You can try to cover it up all you want to, but it's plain to see to everybody else that you are a liar and a dishonest person if you make that argument. And I won't let you get away with that argument because I was around it. It's just, you can't, I mean, you might be able to fool your mother with that argument. You might be able to fool your mother with that argument, but you won't fool anybody else. Anyway, the Bible talks about sorcery, it talks about fornication. That word fornication, pornea, which we're really not gonna get into today that much, maybe, I don't know, we'll see. Here's the Greek word. See this word, pornea, fornication. This word, it's the same word where you get the word pornography, where we get the word Where we get the word pornography from, that's the same word. It's the same word that you get pornography from. That's the same word. So now are you starting to understand? So what do we have a nation of today? Doped up fornicators. Doped up fornicators And you know, here's the other thing I think it's funny that I'm coming out against this and I have all these people trying to trying to make like All these other comparisons to other things Why don't we just deal with pot like we came here to do? How come we're not how come we're not dealing with pot? How come you guys got a problem with me dealing with pot here and talking about that subject? Why does that bother you? Seems like to me that that bothers you Jeffrey Adams asked the question is listening to rock music the same as taking drugs Well, Jeffrey, you should go listen to my sermon called Musical Suicide. The wrong music will kill you. I cover it there. Thanks for asking though. Go see it. Because we're not going to have just an interruption here on this to stop the topic that we're talking about here. Because people don't want to hit that little weed button there, man. They don't want to talk about that dope. A lot of pot smokers, that's why. A lot of people pretending to be Christians want to sit there and toke on some smoke there. They want to just get high. That's what it sounds like. CBD oil is not the same as pot. Pot has THC in it that gets you extremely high. CBD oil does not get you high. There's a difference. It has no psychoactive compounds in it at all whatsoever. Big difference. So let's talk about what it does to the mind here. But I want you to make this connection. I want you to make this connection here. Think about this. The two end time sins that they wouldn't repent of were what? Fornication, and sorceries. What are the two end time sins? Pornia, fornication, pornography, and sorcery. Do you see those two things? Those two things right there are the end time sins. Do you know how many people downloaded the new AI app for pornography? There's a website that Pastor Hoggard sent and in that website, basically what it says, what it says is this. It says... You can make somebody... You could fornicate with whoever you want. You could put anybody's random face there and you can change the faces of the people and put it there. Now they've got these AI bots. They've got all these other things that they're mixing with that now. And what are the two things that are the end time sins that are there? It's that pornea. It's that fornication and it's sorcery and people are doped up today and they're not sober minded and they can't have a sober conversation, especially when they try to compare a cup of coffee or a cup of tea to pot. Now, it amazes me that anybody could actually make that argument, anybody that pretends to be a Christian anyway. And I said pretend, yes. How does marijuana, how can it affect the brain function, induce psychotic behavior? See, there's a difference here. I want to talk to you about something. There is a difference here in There is a difference here in the pot that I smoked back in the 90s and the pot that's now. There's a huge, huge, huge difference. And today, I want to show you this right here. This is, we talked about this craziness. It's a lot happening all at once. Illinois shops run out of marijuana just six days after start of legalization. Tens of thousands of people lined up outside eight dispensaries in Chicago to buy recreational marijuana during the first week of sales. But at the ninth store selling, The newly legal drug, there were no lines. Instead of forcing people wait in the cold for hours, Dispensary 33, wow, Dispensary 33, really, asked eager customers to share a cell phone number like when you go to a crowded restaurant and when the table is ready, they text you. Brian Zisis, co-owner of the cannabis shop on Chicago's north side, told the Washington Post, the dispensary texted dozens of people each hour on the first day of recreational sales, funneling them into the store from opening at 9 a.m. to closing at 9 p.m. But on the fourth day, Zisis was forced to turn away recreational customers because his supply of cannabis had been depleted and new shipments had not yet arrived to restock his store shelves. The same thing is likely to happen again Tuesday. We've been trying to get a sustainable approach in a very unknown market. His dispensary stopped selling recreational marijuana on Saturday and Sunday. Sales resumed Monday morning, but the shop ran out within three hours. We're still waiting on cultivator deliveries, but we'll serve as many recreational customers as we can each day until further notice. Standing in line for hours in frigid temperatures, tens of thousands have flocked to the nine dispensaries. 55 dispensaries in the state sold more than $3 million in THC-imbued products in one day. Illinois' cannabis customers have brought nearly $11 million worth of recreational marijuana in the first five days. See that? But the crush of eager buyers strained the state's marijuana supply. Leading many dispensaries in Chicago to turn away customers before the first week of sales have ended. Meanwhile, given the state's restrictive licensing rules, such large cultivators are now rushing to keep up with recreational demand in a market previously designed to serve a much smaller number of medical cannabis patients. So they sold 274,000 different patients. You're talking a multi-billion dollar business in America now. Suzy Q, I don't remember saying it was okay to be on pain medication. I don't remember anything in what I just said for people to take pain medication. I didn't say that. I just think it's absolutely amazing that people are having this discussion as if like what I'm saying is not real. Look, let me say this again. You're not, I mean, I smoked a ton of pot. I get it. I know what it does. I, And by the way, there is something to be said about having medicine administered unto you by somebody that's not yourself self-medicating with a psychoactive product. When you are self-medicating with a psychoactive product with absolutely no with absolutely no one overseeing that, you are definitely in a place of trouble. In other industries, if a state produced too much of a commodity, the extra would probably flow to places facing shortages. Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, so it can't be sold across state lines. As a result, states that have too much cannabis, like Oregon, can't sell their surplus inventory to those like Illinois that have too little. Oh, don't worry. The federal government will get a hold of that. They want to make money. Demand from recreational users often outpaced medical marijuana use by up to 10 times. Well of course it does! Unlike some of the independent retailers that have run out of marijuana and have been left waiting for deliveries from suppliers, some large companies that both grow and sell marijuana still have product on their shelves. 274,000 people stood in line to get pot the first three days Okay Now I want to read this to you, okay, would you please listen to me? Listen closely I'm concerned for people because I understand what drugs do and I realize there's a difference between pot and eating mushrooms and hitting acid and snorting coke. I get it. However, here's the thing. What's happening today, what's happening today is that The pot that's being produced today is probably 10 times stronger than the pot back in the 90s. People are literally tripping out on this pot now. People are literally tripping out on this now. But there's an effect on the brain that nobody wants to talk about. See, there's effect in the future on this. I'm concerned for a nation of potheads and the pornification of America. We have a bunch of potheads and a bunch of people that are addicted to porn. That's right, Andrea, it is way higher than THC. Way higher. Smoking marijuana is becoming increasingly legal and mainstream in the United States. More than 33 million adults. Why does that number 33 come up in everything? It literally comes up in like everything. It's unbelievable. identifies pot smokers and teenagers in particular feeling more comfortable with weed thanks to its status as a safe drug. The cultural shift may need some rethinking. A new study suggests that there could be potentially negative long-term effects of heavy marijuana use, especially if people begin to smoke at a young age. See, I started smoking when I was 12. About 12. Yeah, I know about crystals on pot. I know. I get it. Believe me, I know. Especially if people begin smoking at a young age. Published last November in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience, the findings are part of the larger effort by a scientist at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to better understand the effects of chronic smoking. murky issue. According to the study, heavy marijuana use was linked to changes in parts of the brain that are involved in the reward processing and habit formation. I know, Andrea, they're smoking the oil now. They're just going straight to it. That's right, not as bad as the stuff now, Andrea, that's right. Okay, look at this. According to the study, heavy marijuana use was linked to changes in parts of the brain that are involved in reward processing and habit formation. The editor of Biological Psychiatry explained in a statement released Monday that this suggests heavy use of this popular drug may lead to depression and other even more severe forms of mental illness. Listen. I know after years later I end up developing anxiety and some depression symptoms. And I know a lot of people that smoked pot back in the 90s and I know a lot of those people now suffer from that anxiety and depression issues. And they did a lot of smoking dope in the 90s. Scientists analyzed resting brain data from 441 people between the ages of 22 and 35 already collected through the Human Connectome Project, a collaboration between the University of Southern California and Harvard. to map the structural and functional neural connections of individuals. 30 of these study participants were already established as meeting the DSM criteria for marijuana dependence. The research team also assessed the brain scans of 30 people between the ages who do not smoke marijuana as a control group. They discovered that the individuals who had starting using cannabis early in life exhibited the most significant changes in their brain's subcortical volumes, as well as changes to the functional connectivity density in the brain's ventral, stratum, midbrain, brainstem, and lateral thalamus. The scientists explained that these changes described as hyper-connectivity end up disturbing resting brain functions associated with habit formation. Reward processing and the development of psychosis, defined as when one's emotions and thoughts aren't in touch with reality. That deals with anxiety, that deals with depression, that deals with all sorts, schizophrenia, it deals with all sorts of things. You're literally like pornography rewiring your brain. Now let's talk about this for a second. I preached a message a long time ago on pornography rewiring your brain. It's mind control that literally rewires the circuitry of your brain. So does this. It messes with the circuitry of the brain. These individuals also reported the highest levels of negative emotions. The study's authors think that that makes sense since the brain's alternations are often associated with heightened feelings of negativity and alienation, which they reason is why people who are dependent on marijuana often report they feel a sense of rejection from others. The study adds to the growing number of studies that have found heavy smoking can link to psychosis. What is psychosis? Let's look at that. Science can predict if you will go crazy when you smoke weed. That word psychosis. A severe mental disorder in which thoughts and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. A worrisome drop in grades or job performance. Trouble thinking clearly or concentrating. Suspiciousness or uneasiness with others. A decline in self-care or personal hygiene. Spending a lot more time alone than usual. Strong, inappropriate emotions or having no feelings at all. That's psychosis. This study adds a growing number of studies that have been found heavy smoking can be linked to psychosis, cognitive impairments, and depression, an effect driven by the low dopamine release seen in the brains of chronic users. Scientists are still learning why these effects manifested and they suspect THC, the most famous active chemical compound in cannabis, is to blame. Another chemical compound in cannabis, CBD, has been found to have the opposite effect. That's right. Actually, CBD oil can actually help heal some of those neurotransmitters in your mind. the firing way your brain fires and the low dopamine levels and all those other things, CBD, which is the other side, can actually help to take some of that away to heal it. Yep. It is clear that these days marijuana use is not the death knell that health advocates early last century feared it was. On the other hand, the new studies like this also emphasize that there will still be a ton we don't know about. See, I'm not dumb. I know that stuff will kill you right away. No, I know that. It won't kill you, but you'll want to be dead. You might want to die. You get enough psychoactive problems in your mind, you might want to die. Okay, let's go to another one here. Long-term effects of marijuana on the brain. There's a three-part series that he covered brain mechanism and seven short-term effects, things like that, but we're gonna get into just this directly and talk about this. Actually, let me go to, let's go to this one first. Know the risks of marijuana. Marijuana use comes with real risks. that can impact a person's health and life. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the US, now it's changing, and it's growing marijuana use among all adult age groups, both sexes and pregnant women is going up. At the same time, the perception of how harmful marijuana can be is declining. People are just thinking, oh, it's okay. Well, the government legalizes it, it's okay. Well, the government legalizes abortion, but that's not good. Right? The government legalizes a lot of things. Liquor, is that good? Just because the government legalizes something doesn't mean Doesn't mean that it's right or it's good. CBD is very productive. It's been found to be extremely productive. And there's no THC in it either. Anyway. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the U.S., but there are real risks for people who use marijuana, especially youth and young adults and women who are pregnant or nursing. Today's marijuana is stronger than ever before. People can and do become addicted to marijuana. Approximately 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted. When they start before age 18, the rate of addiction rises to 1 in 6. The Holy Ghost is stronger than anything on this earth and that's absolutely true, but that doesn't mean that we don't eat food because the Holy Ghost is stronger. That doesn't mean that we don't do things that are provided for us or eat nutritionally because the Holy Ghost is stronger. That's not a really good concept. It sounds more like a Pentecostal concept. It's like people say, well, I'm going to pray so my son doesn't die and they don't take him to the doctor and they let their kid die because they're going to have faith. Please don't claim to be a Christian when you do stupid things like that. Don't tell people that because nobody's going to believe you. And if they do believe you, you just give everybody else a bad name anyway. CBD is not a bad thing. It's actually a very good thing. Okay. Marijuana risks can use negative and long-term effects. Brain health. Marijuana can cause permanent IQ losses of as much as eight points when people start using it at a young age. These IQ points do not come back even after quitting marijuana. How about this, mental health? Studies link marijuana use to depression, anxiety, suicide planning, and psychoactive episodes. It is not known, however, if marijuana use is the cause of these. No, I think they just make them worse. It's not the cause of it. The cause is a fallen world. The cause is a fallen person. That's the difference. Somebody said, wow, see, drinking coffee makes a person cranky. That's what rel rel said. Well, if you're cranky, then get over it. You shouldn't be in a bad mood just because you drink a cup of coffee. What's wrong with you? Shouldn't be in a bad mood like that. Besides, I'm drinking tea. Athletic performance research shows that marijuana affects timing, movement, and coordination, which can harm athletic performance. I'll tell you a story of somebody one time. My boss, one of my bosses a long time ago, years ago, he He said a friend of his got pulled over by the police. And when he was pulled over by the police, he said, do you know how fast you were going? And he goes, and it was in a 55 mile an hour zone. And he goes, 60? And the cop goes, try again. 65? Try again. 70. Try again. 75. You were going 10 miles an hour. What was wrong with him? He was high. He was so high that he was driving 10 miles an hour down the road. That's how stoned he was. Driving, people who drive under the influence of marijuana can experience dangerous effects. Slower reaction, lane weaving, decreased coordination, and difficulty reacting to signals and sounds on the road. Baby's health and development. Marijuana use during pregnancy may cause fetal growth restriction, premature birth, stillbirth, and problems with brain development, resulting in hyperactivity and poor cognitive functions. THC and other chemicals from marijuana can also be passed from the mother to her baby through breast milk, further impacting a child's healthy development. Using marijuana can affect performance and how well people do in life. Research shows that people who use marijuana are more likely to have relationship problems, worse educational outcomes, lower career achievement, and reduced life satisfaction. Listen, I smoked a lot of weed and all it did was make me lazy. It didn't make me work harder. In fact, I went from being a possible division manager of a direct sales organization Basically quitting my job and becoming a salesman again and Barely making it and losing everything in my life Why was that because I didn't want to do anything All I want to do is sit around and get high all day All I want to do is smoke weed all day when I was a lost man. That's all I wanted to do. I So I sat around and just smoked dope. I got up at six o'clock in the morning. You know what I do now? Now I get up in the morning and I read my Bible. That's what I do now. You know what I did then? It's because pot's like a religion. When you smoke weed, it's like a church and a religion. Watch this. Check this out. I'm going to show you something. Pay attention, kids out there. Let me share something with you. See, smoking weed is like a religion. It is literally your church. How do I know that? Okay, well I woke up in the morning at six o'clock in the morning and I did a wake and bake. And I got stinking stoned out of my mind at six o'clock in the morning. Before I went to work, if I showed up at work, I would do a wake and bake in the morning. And then after that, I would go to work sometime if I made it to work. And after I got to work, I didn't really do a whole lot. And in between work, I'd be smoking pot and everything else. But you know what? Then I would hang around people, and we would all get into a circle, and we would fellowship. Well, you say, what would you fellowship around? We fellowshiped around weed. We all got in a circle and we all smoked weed. We passed a bong around. We passed a pot pipe around. We passed a hookah. We smoked a hookah. We smoked joints. We passed them all around. And guess what? I didn't hang out with people that didn't do that. I didn't hang out with people that didn't smoke pot. I just didn't. I had no use for them. I remember I was with this girl and I used to talk to her grandparents all the time. I'd go over to their house. I'd eat dinner with them. I was a professional businessman and everything else. After I got done smoking weed, I stayed in the other room. I stayed away from them. It changed my mind. I didn't want to be around anybody anymore that didn't smoke weed at all. I stayed away from all of them. The only people I hung out with were people that smoked weed. I did everything. I went and looked for weed all the time. I went around to try to find it. That's what I did. I was always looking for a high. If I was out of weed, if I had no weed, then I was looking for weed. I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't have weed. Right, guess what? After I got saved by the grace of God, after I quit smoking weed, number one, I did that before I got saved, I got saved in March of 2002, I quit smoking weed, and I think it was like September of 2001. But you know what? After I was done, I had family members that said, well, we're not gonna hang out anymore. Why? Well, you don't smoke weed, so there's no reason for us to hang out. Well I'm like you were my family before we smoked weed. But there was nothing for us to hang out. I mean, there was nothing for us to do. We would go up in our families, like my mom and dad would be over at my house, or I'd be over at their house or something, or I'd be over at my brother's house or some family member's house. I'd be upstairs in a room smoking weed by myself with other people that smoked weed. I didn't hang around anybody else. Driving down the road in a car, I was always looking behind my shoulder all the time, wondering if the cops were gonna pull me over. having two pounds of dope in a duffel bag, wondering if I would have to make a run for it because the cops are right next to me all the time. I'm telling you, man, you're not going to kid me. That was my church. That was my God. That was my drugs. Those were my gods. And I didn't hang around people that didn't smoke weed. And I didn't want anything with people that didn't smoke weed. I gave my time, my money, my sleep, my health, everything to smoking weed. So what was that? It was my God. And some of you people that are listening to this right now or that are gonna listen to it later, you know it's true. It's your idol. And you allow it to control you and you follow it and it's your God. You think you have it, but it's got you. If I ran out of weed, I was a jerk. If I didn't have any weed, I was a jerk to people. I didn't eat, I wasn't hungry. If I didn't smoke any weed, I didn't get hungry. I probably missed like two or three years of my life smoking weed. So, I mean, you might kid your mother, but you ain't kidding me. Over the past few decades, the amount of THC in marijuana has steadily climbed. Today's marijuana has three times the concentration of THC compared to 25 years ago. Three times! And when I smoked Kind Bud back in the 90s, that stuff would make your eyes cross-eyed. Right? Look at this. The higher the THC amount, the stronger the effects on the brain, likely contributing to increased rates of marijuana-related emergency room visits. While there's no research yet on how higher potency affects the long-term risks of marijuana use, more THC is likely to lead to higher rates of dependency and addiction. Here we go. How about this one right here? Let's break into this one right here and look at this. Not that, that's weird, hold on. Let me mute this till they get that off there. Hang on a second. I don't know how to, I can't stop that commercial. So we'll just, you'll just listen to me talk for a few minutes. But how about this article right here? We're gonna listen to this. 10 seconds, nine seconds, almost there. Hang on a second. Now, own the now with Vistaprint. Good evening. Well, within just hours of the new year, several people showed up to hospitals around the city of Chicago complaining of cannabis related illnesses. Doctors tell me even some of those patients had to be sedated. Recreational marijuana has been legal in the state for less than two weeks and already a rise in pot related emergency room visits. Even to the first, we were already seeing some patients who were perhaps overindulging on cannabis. In just the past nine days, the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center has treated several patients experiencing cannabis-related illnesses. I'm seeing cannabis-related illnesses just about every shift so far. Dr. Javon Thompson, an ER doc and the toxicology director at UIC, tells me novice users are coming into the hospital at the highest rates. Folks that maybe haven't used in a long time or just now deciding they want to give it a try. See they haven't used it a long time. So they're used to smoking back in the 90s, right? So then now they're old now they're older and and now uh, uh, they're they try it again and they're like, whoa Wait a minute, man. This ain't like what I had and they're tripping Since it's legal those people not ready for the look at that I'm telling you that stuff right there is potency of newer strands of pot. Experts say plants now have a higher count of THC than years past. A little less could get you what you may have been looking for then and maybe giving you some adverse symptoms now. The most common symptoms have been restlessness, heart palpitations, and anxiety, but some can be more severe. In some extreme cases, we're seeing sort of full-on psychosis, hallucinations. Okay, now this dude ain't got no reason to lie to you. Are you getting me here? This guy ain't got no reason to lie to you at all. He's not some Baptist preacher. He's telling you, you know, maybe use a little bit less. I'm telling you, stay away from it all. It's of the devil. Don't be smoking weed. Don't be taking weed. agitation, that sort of thing. Treat. He reminds me of Obama kind. It's weird. It depends on how much pot people have used. In at least a handful of recent cases, Dr Thompson says the patients had to be sedated. It is certainly happening. Um, how bad it will be will be too. They have to literally sedate these people. They are sedating them because they're hallucinating. I told you they're tripping on it. to be determined. According to multiple studies, Colorado saw close to a tripling in cannabis related ER visits after legalization. Doctors say edibles led to that increase because people pop the candies and the gummies at a faster rate since it takes longer to feel the high. Oh great, so then they're just popping these gummies, right? And these gummies are just loaded and finally it hits him. Finally it hits him. And they're tripping out because they take too much. Go slow and start low. Now ER rooms around the city of Chicago tell us they are prepared for patients who are coming in after using cannabis. Health-related professionals also telling us tonight they'll have a better idea of exactly how many people come into the emergency room with cannabis-related symptoms in the next few months. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out how much we're whacking these people out and tripping them out and giving them psychosis, right? We'll figure it out. Let's see, where was that? Here it is. Okay. We'll figure it out how bad we're tripping them out. By the way, these people are going to lose their gun rights to a lot of these people. They're not going to be able to have any guns. That's why they want them all doped up. That's what they want you on psychotropics for and mental health drugs. This is why they want you on those mental health drugs so they can keep you from having a gun, keep you from protecting yourself. The higher the THC amount, the stronger the effects on the brain likely contribute to the increased rate of marijuana-related emergency room visits. While there's no research yet on how higher potency affects the long-term risk, okay? Marijuana refers to the dried leaves. Okay, we know that. People who smoke hand-rolled cigarettes in pipes, water pipes, blunts. Okay, I don't need to tell you all the ways you can smoke weed or ingest THC. Peter the first God didn't give you any herbs so you could trip out on them. No God didn't give you any herb to trip out on That ain't the herb bearing seed that God gave you to trip out on Here take this so you could see dragons in the air take this so you could have psychosis schizophrenia Take this Today, marijuana use is on the rise among all adults, age groups, both sexes, pregnant women, people ages 18 to 25 with the highest rate of use. Marijuana and THC remain illegal at the federal level, even though many states have legalized it. All right, there we go. We looked at this one. This is the long term effects. Here we go. By the way, do you understand what's happening right now? What the devil is using this for? So you're not sober. That's what it's about. Right. These people are primed for taking the mark of the beast. I'm just telling you they are. They're just primed for it. Why? Because they're going to get their pornea. They're going to get their fornication. They're going to get their sorcery. Look, all you have to do to these people is dope them up and let them fornicate with an Android or an AI bot. Let them fornicate with whoever they fantasize with online. Let them do both of those things. They'll take the mark of the beast and they'll go on with it. They're not going to be sober enough in their minds to fight anything. They won't have to. The government won't have to do anything to them. They just give them weed. and give them fornication. Which by the way, given somebody an AI bot, because they're going to sell these, what do you call them? Is it androids? These sex bots. They're going to sell these sex bots as little children. So if the pedophile wants a little child, then he can buy a sex bot. which they think will curb that desire, which it will not, it will only foster it and make it worse. Because sin does not get better by indulging in it. Sin must be, you must be delivered from sin. It'll be men, women, children, whatever. Okay, marijuana's recent legalization in two U.S. states now means that many people, not just High Times readers, are thinking about its effects. Even if you aren't familiar with the brain mechanisms, the short-term effects were probably familiar to most readers. The short-term effects, okay. Some long-term effects are carryover short-term effects. Since fat attracts the THC in cellular walls in your body and are composed of fat, THC gets sucked up by cells everywhere. THC then gets released gradually, which is why you can test positive for marijuana up to a month after you put down your hash pipe. so many short-term effects like impaired memory and driving might endure. To test this idea, a recent study compared the short-term memory and information processing speed of people who use marijuana in the past four weeks to people who had never used it. The recent marijuana user remembered less and processed information more slowly than the people who never smoked, even though the users didn't smoke that day. Among the marijuana users, those who used more marijuana in the past 28 days performed worse than those who used less. The authors concluded cannabis use is associated with cognitive impairments that persist after abstinence. As long as THC remains in the body, it stands to reason marijuana continues to affect the brain. What's less clear is whether marijuana can actually change the brain. Once the last traces of THC have been excreted, could brain function remain altered for months or years after? Few studies have addressed the question. and lack of clarity proves fodder for debate. To remove some ambiguity, Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, recently wrote a summary in the New England Journal of Medicine of the scientific findings of the lasting effects of marijuana use. One, risk of addiction. Smoking marijuana won't set an irreversible course for addiction, but you must start using marijuana to become addicted. Almost one in 10 people who use marijuana will eventually become dependent on it, according to findings from the National Epidemiological Survey. Half of the people who eventually met criteria for marijuana dependence did so within four years of their first use. A little under half of the people who seek treatment for marijuana dependents experience withdrawal when they try to quit becoming anxious, irritable, or depressed. All of that is true. Two, alterations in brain development. The brain can be molded and developed throughout our lives, but since it's particularly malleable from the months before birth to our 21st birthday, researchers have wondered whether smoking marijuana during adolescence could change the brain's development. A team led by Andrew Zielinski, the University of Melbourne, Australia, examined this question by performing MRI scans on regular marijuana users who started smoking in adolescence and a comparison group who never smoked. They found that the neural connections between the brain's left and right hemispheres were impaired in the marijuana users relative to non-users, which could mean that smokers' brains have poor internal communication. Zaleski's study, like much of the human work, compared people who already smoked to those who never smoked. So it doesn't know, it doesn't show that brains changed after the person started smoking. Smokers brains may have been different to begin with. The earlier someone started smoking, however, the more pronounced the impairments were. Suggesting marijuana may cause changes. Zaleski's study is hardly unassailable proof, but the suggestion is powerful. The IQ declines. with personality, socioeconomic status, current drug use, or presence of psychiatric diseases. When they started smoking, the youngest who smoked most heavily showed the greatest drop in cognitive performance. The defects extend beyond laboratory tests. People who live with the study, participants filled out questionnaires about the memory and smarts of participants. The participants who started smoking marijuana as teens had more memory troubles in daily life according to people who knew them best. Casual studies of change due to marijuana are, of course, unethical in humans. The evidence we do have suggests that marijuana probably won't scramble your brain, but if you start smoking heavily as a teen, it may slow your brain down. Clearly, we still have much to learn about the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain. A few studies available suggest that marijuana may change the brain function, especially if used when the brain is still undergoing rapid development. More studies need to confirm these suggestions and identify more specific alterations." So those are some of the long-term effects. See, he had... two other parts with this that he studied. Now, so what you have, we've seen the risk of marijuana. Wow, so this is an analysis right here. of the structural change, of how much it's changed the potency in the last two decades. Wow, that's incredible. Bad stuff, man, bad stuff. So what's the Bible say about this? What's God's word say about being sober? Well, clearly someone who's tripping out is not sober, right? So let's look at the Bible. Eight times we've talked about this before. For whether we be beside ourselves is of God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. You tell me. Others, it says here, that for they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunk in the night, but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. So many people, they're not sober. They're not sober-minded. The Bible warns the aged men to be sober, that the aged men may be sober. Be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity and patience. Look what it says here, they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands. Do you know what it explains here, what it means for them to be sober? It means to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good obedient to their own husbands. That the word of God be not blaspheme. Young men exhort to be sober minded. You know, Satan's eating up all these pot smoking people that profess to be saved. And maybe they are some of them and they're disobedient to God. But you look at what Satan does here. The Bible tells us in 1 Peter, 1 Peter 1.13, it says, Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind. That's your mind right here. Gird up the loins of your mind. Gird them up and be sober. And hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to former lusts and your ignorance. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Look at 1 Peter 5.8. Be sober, be vigilant. The Bible is giving us clear instructions. Isn't it? Watchful, circumspect, attentive to discover and avoid danger to provide for safety. Be vigilant, be sober, be watchful, be circumspect. That's what God is telling us to be. How do you suppose you could be that and be a pothead? You really think you can be sober and be a pothead? Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary Adversary. What is an adversary? It is an enemy. Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. How do I resist him? Not by smoking dope. You're not going to resist Satan by smoking weed, by eating weed, by making pot brownies. It's not going to work that way. God has given us instructions for the children of God that they are to be sober minded. And it's unbelievable to me how somebody could actually try to justify this with the effects on the mind that it does. Lone wolf, we're not talking about somebody dying. medicinal marijuana. Nobody is, nobody is talking about somebody dying. There's a big difference in somebody dying of stage four cancer. That's in so much pain. They can't even, they can't even think straight. And you try to ease some of their pain. There's a big difference in that. Somebody's smoking dope to get high to feel good There are certain things that being it can be given to people who are ready to perish The Bible talks about that and it is scriptural and I can show you that It's right here in Proverbs 31 God is merciful God is merciful. It says here, give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. What is it dealing with? Somebody who's dying. I don't have a problem with somebody taking something to help them with pain, but I don't think it needs to be smoking weed and tripping out. There are things that can be given, there are things that can be administered to people that can help them that are dying. The Bible talks about dealing with people like that, that are in much pain. giving them pain medications and things of that nature to help them through that. I don't think there's a sin in that. But guess what you're not doing? It's self-medicating yourself and being like, oh, well, I got some pain, so I need to slam this fifth of Jack Daniels. I got cataracts, so I need to smoke some weed. There are medicinal purposes for things, but I don't recommend you, look what it says here. Look very closely what it says here. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish. Someone else is the administer of that that is administering it to them and helping them as they die or as they are in pain or I'll give you another example that somebody that is an absolute mental shock that there they just saw somebody murdered in front of them and their mind is completely gone and Do you understand that? Something that's wrong with them that their mind is gone. They've just been in shock or somebody just died in front of them and they sedate them. It's called sedating them. God is not cruel. God is not telling us to be cruel to people. And I think you're right, Brother Mike. I don't think pot has any, end time life applications. There are other things that you can give people, medicinal things to help them. But what I'm saying is there are things that people were given back then to help ease them as they were dying a painful death. Say, pastor, give me an example of something. I'll give you an example of something. Let's say you're out on a farm somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and you almost get your arm cut off and somebody has to sew it or your leg has to get chopped off. Well of course if you don't have anything to shoot them with to numb them, of absolute course Of course you would give them, of course you would give them something. You say, pastor, would you give them a fifth of jack so they could take it? Yeah, if I'm gonna saw their arm off, I would. Of course I would, I'm not cruel. Do we have any brains left to be able to see the difference in these two? And I'm not being unkind, I'm simply saying this is common sense. Of course God doesn't want you to just let, well, saw that guy's arm off with nothing. Of course not. Of course we wouldn't be cruel to people. Of course we would do something for them. Why am I yelling? Because I'm a Baptist preacher and I'm not a little sissy girl. And I'm not a little sissy britches guy that sits there and whispers to people. That's why I'm yelling. It don't matter to me if you shout or pout, I get paid the same, which is a big old goose egg. Some people don't have nothing to shout about. I ain't high. I ain't doped up and I ain't sedated. I got a lot to shout about. Who do you think you're talking to, Brian Denlinger? Exactly, they gave him morphine, Cindy. They gave him drugs. They had to. And I'm not advocating being unkind to people that are in pain and hurting. Of course not. So what I'm saying is that you're wise, that there's a reason for some of these things, that God is not cruel. He's not like, well, no, you have to die with nothing. You got somebody that's dying a slow, painful death, of course you're not gonna let them just sit there in pain. You don't do that. And God doesn't advocate doing that. This is something totally different. Right. You must be cranky. You're drinking coffee. I'm not cranky. I'm just passionate. That's all. There's a difference. That's right. They'd give whiskey and morphine. They'd give them something. And so, but it was always administered by somebody else. The guy wasn't sitting there just drinking a fifth of Jack all day long. Like that was just regular life. That's not how it works. You know what I mean? So I understand that God has reasons for certain things. So we want to try to understand and be compassionate for those that are in chronic pain all the time. There's things that you can take. There's things that they gave people that were in chronic pain. And I don't believe that's a sin. I believe we can see the, But it wouldn't be anything to make them an alcoholic and it would be anything they administer to themselves all the time that they become highly addicted to. It would have to be something that would be in a controlled environment. Something that was done in the proper way. And the Bible tells us about that and talks about that. It also talks about wanting them to give their neighbor strong drink. You know? to get them drunk to see their nakedness. So obviously the purpose is different here. The purpose is way different here as far as giving them something to help them. That's a balanced and That's a balanced and scriptural approach there. But God's Word is telling us to be sober. That Word is 12 times in the Bible. And if you look at it, it's all New Testament. Says the bishop then must be blameless, a husband, one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach. He's not given to wine. Remember, he's supposed to be sober, serious. That word covers more than just without alcohol. Even so must their wives be grave, not slanders, sober, faithful in all things. But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate. That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith and charity and patience. So the Bible is instructing us over and over again. to sobriety. And there's principles in the Word of God for people that are struggling or going through different things. But it's proven also that psychosis... look at the definition of psychosis. Psychosis in psychotic episodes. It causes you to lose. This is what marijuana affects. My father was given morphine until he stopped breathing. Is that kind? Angela, I never said it was kind. But I also know there's people that were given drugs that were in intense pain that helped ease their way out of this life as they were in pain for weeks at a time. Look at the psychotic disorders that come with that. Like schizophrenia involves psychosis that usually affects you for the first time in the late teen years or early adulthood. Young people are especially likely to get it, but doctors don't know why. Look at this. Warning signs before psychosis. Signs of early psychosis. Hear, see, or taste things others don't. Hang on to unusual beliefs or thoughts no matter what others say. Pull away from family and friends. Stop taking care of yourself. Not be able to think clearly or pay attention. Hallucinations. Hallucinations. Hearing voices when no one is around. Tactile hallucinations. Strained sensations of feelings you can't explain. Visual hallucinations, you see people or things that aren't there. Delusions, beliefs that aren't in line with your culture and that don't make sense to others. Outside forces are in control of your feelings and actions. Small events or comments have huge meaning. You have special powers or are on a special mission, actually are a god. That's some weird stuff right there, isn't it? So, a lot of different things there. Well, I don't agree with drugging people up to kill them, okay? I don't think anybody could take anything from the statement that I made. From anything that I said, I don't think anybody could take that. You know? And I don't think you should drug people to kill them. We're against ending anybody's life and killing them. That's why we're Christians. We believe in life. And Joey Foss has a sermon called Hospice Hell. I've never heard it, but I heard it was good. So Hospice Hell deals with the sin of hospice and what they do to people. So I'm not advocating that or anything like that. I'm just simply saying that's out there. Anyways, anybody have any questions here on the side? Any questions at all? Let's see, I'll look at some comments here. Texas Cindy on there, Carl Winters, The Sullivan Kid, Authorized Mike, Nehemiah, Cindy Moretti, Nehemiah, let's see, Carl Winters, Lisa, Janine, Aaron, Susie. Show me the truth, 1611. Ross Duncan, hope you're doing well. Steven, Carl Winters. I already said his name, humdog1212. Pot is terrible, you're right. Stoners that say weed isn't addictive are just in denial. That is true, Josh Webb. Phillip Valise. Wow, 10 years. Praise the Lord, God delivered you from that, Philip. That's a wonderful testimony. Okay. Let's go back, we'll go down. Man, there's a lot of people on here today, a lot of comments. What is your opinion on mental health meds? If you're talking about psychotropics, I believe they're very dangerous. That's what I believe about psychotropics. I believe they're very dangerous. Let's see. It's been four years since David Bowie last Wednesday was both Elvis and Bowie's birthday. I don't know what that means. Weed is a form of sorcery. Yes, it is. I already talked about that one. I didn't mean euthanasia. I meant hospice gives painkillers to people who are dying in a lot of pain, like with cancer. What's your advice to Christian users, Pastor? To repent and turn away from their sin. Because they are sinning against God. Yes, drugs can put you in a place for devils. Absolutely, they can. Are you planning on preaching at Paisley Park where Prince lived? I mean, I wasn't planning on it for any reason. Why, is there something going on there? No one cares about them, I don't see how that's right. What's going on, Mr. Cooley? Well, Eli, let's see. I had a good weekend. I was busy all weekend with lots of stuff to do, and lots more to do here this week. Pray for my back. It's getting a little bit better, but boy, it's giving me a fit here yesterday and today. I went to the Cairo on Friday, and I may have to go back again. Yeah. Don't take antidepressants. Yeah, don't take antidepressants. That's absolutely right. Those are very dangerous to take. I know people, I know people that have killed themselves on antidepressants. Yeah, a couple people. Absolutely. So yeah, that's real. People do that. That's for sure. Yep, all drugs, all psychoactive drugs are used in witches ceremonies, in occultists trying to drum up devils and everything else, that's all pretty common. Not to change the subject, what do you think about Ray Comfort? Well, I think he had some compromising issues with with that network, I forgot what it's called, but I heard he repented of that, but I don't know. TBN, yeah, he did a show on TBN a while back years ago. I don't know. I think, I'm sure some people get saved from his ministry, but I don't think he uses the King James Bible. I think he's probably done a lot of good with his videos and things like that. But I don't really support his ministry or anything like that. Do you think all presidents, including Obama, Trump, etc., are devils, puppets as well? Yes, I do. I do think that all presidents have pretty much been puppets for a while. Yeah, so anyway, I don't really... Yeah, I didn't know that. Kirk Cameron, yeah, he runs with Kirk Cameron, yeah. Yeah, he does. So anyway, yeah, those guys are ecumenical. They're more ecumenical than obviously what we would be. We stand opposed to the ecumenical movement. that merging together with these others that are out there. The other ministries like that that are out there. That's one thing that we avoid. Let's see. Yeah. Yep. Those guys are compromised for sure. They certainly are. All right. Well, if there's nothing else here, yeah, no flat earthers today. Praise the Lord. I'm glad they're gone. Anybody else want to say hi real quick? I'll give you an opportunity to say hi before I get off here. If you haven't said hi yet today on here to us, or if you've never let us know you're listening out there, go ahead and pop on and just say hi. The breathing is a law and the remedy. Right. Big Will, that's right. He preaches law to the proud, grace to the humble, which is good. Great comfort does. That is good. Let's see. Yeah, he's got some good evangelistic things. Joel Pelton. Howdy, Pastor. Where are you from, Joel? Do you think Anton LaVey is saved? Anton LaVey? Uh, no. No. My fiance is a psych nurse and struggles with his line of work. He doesn't like to pass meds in some cases, doesn't like drugging some people. What do you think about drugs in mental health facilities? Well, it's kind of a mess, that's for sure. But it's a mess. I can understand why that would be uncomfortable, Marissa. I can understand how that would be. I think, you know, some people are pretty messed up out there. And when they come into those psych wards, those psych nurses have to do what they can to keep those people stabilized. I'm not defending anything, but I'm just saying they have to do something to calm them down. So I understand why they do that, you know. Yes, drugs are bad. Kerrville, Texas. Okay, Joel. Kerrville, Texas. Yeah, it's unfortunate to have to work in some of these places are rough. I've never heard of Anton LaVey repenting of anything. To repent on his deathbed, that's something I've never heard. Yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know about a life of Satanism, and then all of a sudden, while you're checking out of the hotel, you just, a quick prayer. Well, that's a loaded question, Texas, Cindy. So, Pastor Cooley, should I divorce my husband for doing pot and porn? Well, you can't have pot and porn around your children, so I suggest the separation from him and the other drugs that he's doing is the safest thing that you can do, waiting for him to repent. You know, I don't know your situation, Texas Cindy, that well. I think it'd be better if you emailed me at PastorCooley at iCloud.com and asked me some of those questions. I couldn't really answer that question, you know, on a thread like this, you know what I mean? That's something that's, it's a little bit more in depth of a question, and I wouldn't be so careless as to, you know, kind of answer, give you a, a general answer to a deep question that affects your life and the life of others. You know what I mean? So you are definitely free to ask me that question if you'd ask me in private and I could talk to you about that a little bit better. You know what I mean? It's just a little more... It's a little more difficult question to answer like that. God hates divorce, absolutely, and we should too. There's just a lot that goes into that. That's not something that you can really be flipping about. It's a very serious matter in the eyes of God. But I would try to help you through some of that if you contact me. Yep, that's it. Let's see. Yeah, I don't believe in too many of those deathbed confessions, because deathbed confessions are supposed to bring glory to God, not just... I mean, the thief on the cross brought glory to God. Angela, you're right, porn is devastating. It's absolutely devastating. And I wouldn't want a porn addict around my children. Absolutely. But... Philippines. Pray for the Philippines. Let's see. All right. Well, we will. I heard Darwin did, though he's not a Satanist. But, well, I think Darwin's pretty close to a Satanist. I don't know. I don't think there's much difference in Darwin and a Satanist. So from that standpoint, Anyway, all right. Well, I think I'll get out of here while the getting's good. That's what I think. I've made enough people mad today, probably half the devils in Minnesota and all that, but we thank the Lord for his protection and guidance and direction. The answer to all of it though is to be born again if you are stuck in marijuana use and you're a pothead or you're any kind of drug addict or alcoholic or anything else. The answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ, for the Lord is able to deliver you. That word salvation is the same word as deliverance. And salvation delivers us from sin and wickedness, from sin's control. So whether it's pornography, whatever it is, whether it's marijuana use, whatever it is, whether it's any kind of drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, whatever it is, the Lord has the power to deliver you. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is able to make thee whole. Jesus Christ can forgive your sins and cleanse you of your unrighteousness. Jesus Christ can change you and make you a new creature. The Lord is able to do that. I suggest you go listen to the sermon, the gospel, which is able to save your soul. The Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. If you're taken by drugs, the Lord can deliver you from drugs by the blood of Jesus Christ. See, Jesus died on the cross for your sins. He was buried and he rose again from the dead. And he is the power. to forgive your sins. He has the power to deliver you from the wrath to come. And you deserve hell. You deserve to die and go to a devil's hell. But Jesus died on the cross for your sins. And he was buried, and he rose again the third day. that in him you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly. The Bible says he came unto his own, but his own received him not. But to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even them that believe on his name. You can be forgiven. The Lord can take away your sins. The Bible says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and for the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth under righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. God bless you, have a good night.