Preaching upon this verse, be not drunk with wine. And let's go ahead today and close out this whole series on being drunk with drugs. And I tell you what, I believe Holy Spirit revival will come when you get the bad spirits out. So God can come in and fill you. And I believe God's not going to show up as much as He would as long as you've got other stimulants besides the Holy Ghost. Let's go ahead and pray for God to be in this sermon and God to do a blessing. Give us a blessing from the preaching of His Holy Word. Dear Lord, we do ask that you would be in the preaching today. God, that Your Spirit would bring all who need to hear this message, Lord. Please use it to Thy glory, Lord. Help us, God, to have Thy understanding this morning that You would have for us. Thy wisdom, in the name of Jesus, Amen. As it says in verse 15 of Ephesians chapter 5, see that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. Therefore, anything that messes up your mind, anything that hinders you from looking all around and watching to the best of your ability, cannot be of God. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Whatever clouds your judgment and keeps you from fully understanding at every moment what the will of the Lord is, cannot be of the Lord. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. Being drunk with alcohol disorders your life, disorders your mind, leads to all types of intemperance and immoderation. But instead of being drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit. Be filled with God. And I want you to see that this would be the manifestation of the Holy Ghost, how God wants it. speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. That's not a spirit of irritation. That's not a spirit of anxiety and frustration. That is a spirit of making melody, of thanksgiving, as he says in verse 20, giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We've covered marijuana, we've covered alcohol, we've covered gluttony, we've covered nicotine, we've covered caffeine, and I'm going to tell you what, we've got one more drug to deal with and I'm going to close out this series today with drunk with sugar. Now, a lot of folks in America today would have been shocked that you would do a sermon on nicotine or caffeine. That's how far we've gone in this day and age. And I believe that there's a lot about this around America that are not going to understand the title of this sermon today. But I pray when I get done with it, they'll have a full understanding what I mean by drunk with sugar. I'm going to say that when I first got saved, I praised God for it. But when I first got saved, He took away every bit of sugar out of my life. I don't know why that happened. other than I wanted my life to be as perfect as I could get it in every area. And although I made some mistakes, God blessed me. When I first got saved, to get rid of sugar, high fructose corn syrup, everything, I did not touch it. I would not buy one single article of food. I've been like that ever since I've been saved. I've been married for 16 years. I've been a preacher for 17 years. And I was saved before I became a preacher. And praise God. Amen? That's how it should be. And I've been without cane sugar. I will say I ended up with a confusion on NutraSweet for a short period of time, a couple of years, one or two years or so in my life. I'm sad to say I wish I would have been able to overcome that and understand it. There was a period in my life when my children did do cane sugar and got their first cavity and I thought that cane sugar juice was acceptable. And then that's when I finally realized that no, That was just a health food scam. So let's begin today. And I'm going to talk about God sugar, which is called honey. Honey is good in moderation, according to the Bible. It says in Proverbs 24, my son, eat now, honey, because it is good. That's a command. Eat now, honey. Why? It's good. And the honeycomb. Go ahead and eat that part, too, which is sweet to that taste. That's Bible. But he says in Proverbs 25, hath thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith and vomit it. It is not good to eat much honey. Well, there you go. To eat much honey, as healthy and nutritious and life-giving as honey is, to eat too much will make you sick. So we should not eat too much of God's sugar. It needs to be in the right place, the right moderation. Judges 14, the Holy Ghost says, what is sweeter than honey? If you find something sweeter than honey, how can it be from God? That's my question for you right here today. Charles Butler. In 1632, it says, in respect of the marvelous efficacy which fine and pure honey has in preserving health, that gross and earthy stuff, cane sugar, is nowhere comparable to this celestial nectar. And I agree. And I believe history has shown this man to be right. I believe it is plain as can be. Honey contains at least 181 substances, plus things they haven't discovered yet. So the idea that all sugar is the same, somebody lied to you. Do you know how many substances are found inside these things? Do you know how many life-giving nutrients? How many different things are found? I'm going to tell you something, they're still discovering these micronutrients. Peter Macinnis in Bittersweet, The Story of Sugar, says fig and date syrups were both common around the Mediterranean Sea, but honey was used widely. From India to Northern Europe, honey was the main sweetener for most early societies. And that is right. They didn't have the diseases like we have them today, that's for sure. But I want to give you the history of cane sugar consumption. There is no cane sugar in the Bible. There's sweet cane, but you sure didn't eat that. That was an incense that you burned. But there was nothing called cane sugar that you ate at such a time in the Bible or in these early societies. Sugar began as a drug. When they discovered sugar, it was a drug. The rich used it like many do cocaine today. In the late 17th century, much of the popular medical literature turned against it, even as a drug. Yet with aggressive marketing, plus the addiction that was growing, it finally grew from a rarity for the wealthy to a common substance by the end of the 19th century. I want you to notice what this says. By the end of the 19th century is when it began to be a common substance in your daily food. That means a little over a hundred years this thing has been seen as part of your daily diet. Do you understand? Florida Crystals, which is a sugar company, tells us by 1850, sugar had been transformed from a luxury to a commodity in English life. They're proud of that, so they want you to buy sugar. And their argument, see, it's been for 150 years, we've used it as a commodity. Well, we thank you for the confession here, because it shows us that it hasn't been very long that you've been using this mess. And by the way, that was brown sugar, which is not much better, but at least it's got a few little vitamins in it compared to this other mess. Alfred W. McCoy in Opium History says, after a century of constant dietary habits, the average Englishman's consumption of sugar jumped fourfold from 1850 to 1900. Again, all of this is in agreement. During the same period, England's per capita consumption of tea increased threefold. So basically from 1850 to 1900, when you have Darwinism, when you have evolution, when you have the birth of psychology, when you have all of this other mess, you've got basically a world that is getting intoxicated upon caffeine and sugar like never before in history. Similarly, in the United States, between 1865 and 1902, coffee consumption increased nearly threefold, while sugar jumped fourfold. Paralleling the growth of sugar in coffee use, American consumption of opium rose over fourfold from the 1840s to the 1890s. So this doesn't sound like a good period, does it? It doesn't really sound like a wise period when it comes to food choices. Dr. R. Rosler in Sugar the Cause of Tooth Decay, a paper read before the New Jersey State Dental Society at Asbury Park in 1910, says sugar is not mentioned in the teaching on diet of the Greek athletes nor by the Spartans, although they knew of it. In other words, they didn't say this is something you need to be eating for your health. In the 9th century, Arabic physicians used sugar as medicine. This change, which was more or less caused by the Darwinian ideas, came about the middle of the last century. Again, in agreement. It was the vegetarian who announced the importance of sugar. In former times, sugar was so costly that only the wealthy people could buy it. So, this man, this dentist says, in many ways it's linked to the spirit of Darwin in the idea that we're getting wiser. instead of actually having perilous times in the last days and people losing their minds. I have taken a lot of statistics here and organized them for you from various sources. We'll begin with 1808. The average, according to historians, of persons that did eat sugar, the average person would eat about 8.4 pounds per year. That's from Connie Bennett, Sugar Shock. In 1837, it is estimated 3 to 16 pounds. That's a whole year. If you think how much 17 teaspoons of sugar in your average Coke today that you drink, 17 teaspoons. Do you understand how many pounds people are consuming of this mess today, when a whole year you barely got 3 to 16 pounds back then, if you were somebody that was able to eat this stuff? I get this from 1837, the Notice on Beet Sugar by Butler. During Napoleon, France consumed a fraction more than a pound per head. Now, in 1837, she consumes 3 pounds. England is up to 16 pounds in 1837. In 1883, sugar was opposed by many. In 1809, 85 pounds. According to Sugar Shock, in 1909, the typical American consumed close to 85 pounds, at least according to what the government wants you to believe. But by the time you get to 1917, somebody that lived at the time, the medical summary, Dr. Alexander Gibson, in the case against sugar in 1917, he says it was only 80 pounds in 1917. He says during the last quarter century, the consumption of manufactured sugar has increased at a rate that at present averages 80 pounds. No other element in the human dietary has increased with such leaps and bounds. The prodigious feeders of the Elizabethan era, when sugar cost a guinea pound, consumed less free sugar in a month than a modern schoolchild for a couple of pennies worth consumes in a day. In fact, the indulgence of sugar has exceeded every other stimulant, including tobacco, coffee, tea, and alcohol. But notice, 1917, 80 pounds of sugar. If we went down to Walmart and got a pound of sugar, and we got us a wheelbarrow right here, and we stuck in 18 pounds, that's where you're at in 1917. In 1919, however, New York Times reports that you have about 100 pounds. In 1939, Victor H. Lindlair in Eat and Reduce says today Americans eat 8 times as much sugar per person per year as they did 100 years ago. Do you see the addiction growing? Do you see the marketing, the promotion, the addiction growing? When you get to 1985, watch out. It jumps to 120 to 133 pounds per person. So if we brought a wheelbarrow in here and stuck a big old pound of sugar in it and did it 133 times, most of you couldn't bring the wheelbarrow outside the church. That's more than some folks weigh. That's 133 pounds of sugar. Nancy Appleton in Lick the Sugar Habit says the report showed that in 1985, the average person in the United States drank 486 12-ounce cans of soft drink, 100 of which were sugar-free. Not much better. The average American consumed more than 120 pounds of sugar in 1985. The University of California's Berkeley Wellness Letter estimated a whopping 133 pounds per year. By 1994, it is up to 149 pounds. That's per person per year. Recent government research shows that in 1984, sugar consumption averaged 149 pounds per person per year. By 1999, we've jumped to 151 to 170 pounds. That's a wheelbarrow filled with 170 pounds of sugar. By 1999, Americans consumed a total of 151.4 pounds per person, but some experts believe that the government's delivery estimates are grossly underestimated. The average American consumes more like 170 pounds per year, estimates Russ Bianchi, an experienced food scientist. In the last 200 years, sugar consumption has risen more than 1,500 percent, cautions nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D. By 2004, Americans were consuming 52 gallons of soft drinks. All of that mess, all of that caffeine, all of that sugar, all of that high fructose corn syrup and who knows what else. 52 gallons of it. In the past 50 years, soft drink consumption increased 500% according to the USDA. If I can prove nothing else by sugar, I can prove you're already drunk on it in one biblical way. I tell you what, gluttonous. 2004, I'm sorry, 2004, 52 gallons of soft drinks. By 2010, the day you're living in, According to McCullough, the kind of consumption equates to more than 180 pounds of sugar per year. And it just so happens this statistic dovetails nicely with the statistics showing that one in four Americans is either pre-diabetic or has type 2 diabetes. There it is. So, what's happening to America today? There's never been a generation ever that's been so filled with sugar or some type of chemical imitation of it, like this generation. Dr. Scott Olson, a naturopath doctor, he writes a book called Sugarettes, Sugar Addiction and Your Health. He compares it to cigarettes. He said, today people eat more sugar in a week than your grandmother or great grandmother did in an entire year. Jeremiah 51 reminds us, in the last days, the nations are what? Mad! We use mad to refer to somebody that blows their top. Because it's a form of madness. It's a type of madness. We have a mad society today. We have an irritable, deranged world out here today. And a lot of it is because they are wickedly consuming in their body substances that mess up their mind, mess up their behavior, and it's irresponsible. Matthew 16, Jesus says, O ye hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky, but can you not discern the signs of the time? Can you not look out here and find out why they're dying? Can you not look out here and see why little children are losing their minds? Can you not look out here and discern the times that obviously we are a nation that is on dope like never before in history? 2 Peter 3 says, this know also, that in the last days, nice times shall come. No, perilous times shall come. Why? For men shall be lovers of their own self. They say, if it tastes good to me, I want to eat it. I don't care what it does to my marriage, what it does to my relationships, what it does to my body. Who cares? I want to be pleased. They will be incontinent, which means unable to control their self. They will be fierce, unable to control yourself. Violent. Verse four, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. They don't care what it does. They don't care what it does to their health. They're lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. If it tastes good, I want to eat it. If it tastes good, give it to me, they say. Now, I would like you to look at my next point. Beware of dainties, according to the Word of God, especially those not found in the Bible. That's the first thing. When you look and find that God's given you all things that pertain to life and godliness, and you don't find some substance that we're using today, you put up a red flag already. Then you look and find out for most of history, they haven't had this substance. But you look at when they started increasing the amount of, you see the bottom dropping out of everything. That's the second red flag. Then when you have Neuroscientists coming and explaining to you scientifically what this thing's doing. That's the final red flag. But let me first of all show you Psalms 141, verse 4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing. To practice wicked works with men that work iniquity. And let me not eat of whose dainies? Their dainies. So, when you have a mass generation of evil people. Don't follow these evil people. Don't do what they do. Don't eat of their dainties. Proverbs 23, Be not desirous of his deities, for they are deceitful meat. Look not thou upon the wine. In other words, these things promise you a good time. They promise you, like Satan himself, you're going to have an enjoyable time, but then it stings like a serpent. Ephesians chapter 4, Paul says, This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind. What do the other Gentiles do? Having their understanding darkened. Do you see that? Do you see what the Gentiles do? The Gentiles have dainties. The Gentiles have all types of things they use to darken their understanding. The Bible says, do not follow these Gentiles in darkening their understanding. In previous messages on this subject, we've read from Galatians chapter 5, where he says, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, there it is, revelings, and then he adds, and such like. Anything that is like drunkenness. If you say, I snort cocaine and I'm not vomiting or staggering like a drunken person, well, the Bible says anything like drunkenness, beware of. Of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. To whatever degree God's going to permit that, it's going to damage you. You better believe it. It's going to harm you, and it's going to bring judgment in your life. And if you cross the line, friend, of drunkenness, you will not even enter into the coming kingdom, the thousand-year reign of the Lord. Notice, you can be drunk on many things other than alcohol. It says in Lamentations 3, He hath made me drunken with wormwood. So whatever plant, whatever substance that grows that is a drug that intoxicates your mind, brings Damage to your health is not of God. I'm reminded of Luke 21, our Lord's final ultimate warning here in Luke chapter 21. He says, take heed to yourselves. That's what I'm calling you to do as a preacher today. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, eating too much, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, so that day come upon you unaware. If you can have this problem with even good honey, what in the world can happen to your mind with something like cane sugar, or cocaine, or nicotine, or caffeine, or something that is not life-giving? If life-giving substances can cause you to be overcharged to where you're not even ready for the second coming, what in the world can substances that are not life-giving, what can they do to you? Oh, I tell you what, we need to move on today and to my next point, and that is sugar is an addictive drug. It's right here where a lot of folks are not going to understand. I'm defining sugar, not as honey. You say, well, the American Diabetes Association, I don't care what they tell you. I don't care what they tell you. All sugar is this, and I don't care. They're lying to you to try to sell you something. They are funded by pharmaceutical companies. Sugar, what I'm defining as sugar today, is cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, any of these imitations of God's healthy, life-giving sugar that He wants you to have. And so, God gives you figs, God gives you dates, God gives you lots of fruits, God gives you honey, God gives you these things that He means for you to get your so-called sugar in a proper form where your body takes it, recognizes what it is, digests it, then feeds your brain and everything. That's how God intended you to eat this stuff. He never told you to go get something that goes right into your body and messes up your mind. Sugar is an addictive drug. From Health, a home magazine devoted to physical culture and hygiene in 1904, they say it is not incorrectly classed as a narcotic. Sugar is coming to be admitted as one of the finest of nerve stimulants and narcotics. It is incapable of sustaining life. We have learned that sugar is a narcotic and a nerve stimulant of the finest nature, incapable of sustaining life, producing soft, flabby muscles and bloating the body. So, in other words, you get this inflammation, you get all of this mess that comes from this drug called sugar. I was at a person's house not long ago, and we had a wonderful meal, but the dessert had, as I began to taste it, it had sugar in it, because I felt immediately the cocaine-type feeling in my mind. And I said, that's cane sugar in there. And they said, no, there's no cane sugar in this at all. And come to find out, they had sprinkled a little bit of brown sugar across the top of it. but I was able to recognize that drug feeling that came, that I don't get from honey. I don't get from God's fruits and vegetables, but I did get it from that. I felt the immediate rise in blood sugar that's abnormal and not right. I felt the adrenaline rush. I felt all of the drug stimulation, just like we would have snorted a little bit of cocaine. Now, just because something is acceptable, just because everybody does it, how can that be a barometer for what is right and wrong? Medical age, quoted in the Woman's Medical Journal of 1906, says sugar, like kola nuts and coca, cocaine, or alcohol, diminishes the amount of work that can be done in an hour or in a day, but it increases the force of a single shorter effort. Sugar is a stimulant, like anything else that excites, accelerates the onset of fatigue. When we say something's a drug, you think it's just going to make you sit over there and not be able to move, like Valium or Quaalude or something. But you need to understand the way speed works, the way a stimulant works, is it gives you a burst of energy only to drop you way low later. See, it seems at the beginning of the century they understood some things about sugar that they have covered up for this generation. But I've been trying to tell you for years about it. Sugar, an English-Spanish technical journal in 1919, the question of sugar intoxication is being argued with increasing frequency among physicians. That's 1919. The effects of sugar as a stimulant have been known for some time. Irritability, fretfulness, and general crankiness are the most frequent effects. Children and grown-ups who eat large quantities of sugar or candy show undeniable effects of intoxication several hours later. Their nerves are on edge. Their temper is irascible. and children especially are apt to be insolent and disobedient? Editors of American newspapers should be asked to cooperate in spreading the gospel of true temperance even in the eating of candy? Amazing! What are they saying? They're saying if God says you're supposed to have self-control, if God says you're supposed to submit yourselves one to another with thanksgiving, if God says you're supposed to have a sound mind, do you need anything else messing you up? This is not a generation that needs drugs. If you're to be kind and every idle word is going to be judged and let everything be compassionate and gentle And everything that comes out of your mouth, let it be edified. I don't need a drug stimulating me. I got enough in me to have to resist and put down, where I don't need some type of stimulant bringing me up, down, up, down, making me crazy in my home. You understand that? A 1922 scientific journal in... Endocrinology and metabolism says Jacobi of 1916 thinks that diabetes, in addition to being a disturbance of metabolism, is possibly also a sugar intoxication. Guess what? When you do drugs, you're going to have body problems. When you do drugs, you're going to have physical and emotional problems. So, it's no wonder that when people are taking something and the Diabetes Foundation says, oh, it's just like honey. No, honey has things that God has in it to protect you. So, you can take the so-called sugar out of it and be protected when you do it in moderation and eat it properly. But, these other things that God never intended you to eat, there's no protection. William Dufty in Sugar Blues. Now, these are secular books, some of them, so I don't recommend them from a Christian perspective, but there are a few quotes we can take out of them of a scientific nature. William Dufty does give us a historical word here. He says, in a strange way, the trail of opium poppy has kept a parallel historical pace with the mark of cane. In some quarters early in the 1900s, there were spokesmen who judged sugar the greatest of all addictive evils, while the attitude toward opiates was relatively benign. So, in other words, at that time period, they would be lighter on opium than they would on cane sugar. But through successful marketing, we have reversed this now to where you've got little children walking and walking around with little sugar drugs. And they're pulling on their mama, Brother John. They're pulling, pulling like little brats and they're going crazy. And finally, the mother reaches over, as one writer says, and gives them a cigarette. And then they just sit back all calm and nice. And then she says to the sister next to her, Yeah, you know, she gets real cranky if she doesn't get her cigarette, but look how nice she is now. Well, if that was happening in American churches, you'd be shocked and dismayed. But when somebody hands up a narcotic of chocolate and they sit over there and they're not cranky little brats anymore, we're supposed to be good little parents now. See? Says who? Says the same generation that aborts babies and calls it a fetus? You're going to follow that generation? You're extreme. I say they're extreme. In Sugar Shock of 2007, written by Steven T. Sinatra, M.D. and Connie Bennett, she says, about 45 minutes into our drive after eating sugar, my mood shifted abruptly. Anxiety consumed me. Edginess seized me. Even worse, I felt as if a monstrous force beyond my control had bubbled up inside me. The calm, charismatic Connie had totally vanished. In her place, a crabby, cantankerous shrew had taken over. I felt as if this chilling creature was in control. Against my will, my demonic double irrationally attacked with harsh words. Scenes like the one I've just described used to be periodic in my life, but that was before my stunning, life-changing revelation. In spring 1998, after years of surviving way too many mortifying situations and freaking out more loved ones than I care to admit, I found my problem. When I eat sugar, I turn into my own worst nightmare, a fuming, disagreeable sugar monster. A sobbing, pitiful sugar crybaby, difficult to be around. I was stalked by brain fog. I counted calories instead of eating right. You ever see people pick up a bag, oh, this has this many calories. Why don't you look and see what you're eating? See if you're eating a drug or not. Soon after kicking sugar, all 44 of my dreaded symptoms totally disappeared. Why weren't our nation's newspapers, magazines and TV talk shows brimming with stories like mine? Emotional turmoil is only part of the story. I've met so many people suffering all types of physical and going to psychologists for emotional problems. If it wasn't a racket, then what would happen? They'd say, are you on drugs? No, I'm not doing marijuana. I'm not doing alcohol. Are you doing caffeine and nicotine and cane sugar? If you are, get off your chocolate, get off your drug, then come back and see if your physical problems still manifest themselves, you see. That's what we need. If you had, People that were knowledgeable today, that's what they would say. In every counseling situation, in every doctor's office, that would be, but you know what? The doctors are on drugs themselves. Many of them. Dr. Schwarzbein, a renowned endocrinologist, endocrinologist, says on sugar you can get irritable, irrational and almost paranoid. And you tend to take it out on the person you love the most. How many people are crazy up and down? How many women are having their hormones go up and down and just having a whole mess in their life? And they say, well, we're just being women. No, that's not just being women. You don't find this type of thing. And I believe that much of this is coming because you're on drugs. In Sugar Shot, Joe, who's 41, says, without my rages, my husband and I get along much better. Who knows what type of person you would be if you got this stuff out of your life? You say, well, I just say whatever I want to say, and I'm always having trouble. I'm up and down, and I'm having blow-ups, and that's just my personality. No, that's not just your personality. You're on drugs. Get off drugs. Quit doing drugs and let's see what happens to your personality. Dr. Scott Olson in Sugarettes says, when I tell people that I'm writing a book on the addictive properties of sugar, they nearly all admit that they are addicted to the white stuff. Nancy Appleton, PhD, in Lick the Sugar Habit, says refined sugar is in fact more of a pharmaceutical drug. Dr. Richard H. Heller, in Carbohydrate Addicted Kids, 452 pages, in 1997, says, I don't even like the word carbohydrate addicted kids here, but I understand what he's trying to say. Help professionals, teachers, and counselors, because you know what? If you call whole wheat a carbohydrate, that's a good thing. You understand that? So we can't dump good carbs, as they use the word, in with cane sugar and all these other things. But anyway, if you're talking about potato chips and chocolate and cane sugar, then exactly. We have carbohydrate addicted kids. He says health professionals, teachers and counselors may wrongly advise parents that sugar related hyperactivity and mood swings are nothing but a myth. Do you think maybe the sucker's causing my child to not be able to sit still and learn? This is why I've got to hypnotize them with video stimulation, and that only keeps them still for a little while. I mean, what in the world's going on today? See, you've got kids on drugs, and you're having behavior problems, and so they're putting them on more drugs to try to solve the behavior problem. Does that make sense? It only makes sense if you're at the receiving end of this whole thing. Nancy Appleton again says the research of Dr. Alex Schaus indicates that when sugar is removed from a child's diet, school grades do go up. I read from a book to you not long ago by Barbara Reed Stitt called Food and Behavior. She was a former probation officer. She banned sugar, white flour, caffeine, and got astonishing results in the behavior of criminals and those that were trying to reform. It was amazing. Their violent outbursts and all these things began to go away and they began to get control in their life. Because you know what wine brings? You know what drunkenness brings? Excess, which means disorder. So, when you have this drug problem, you're going to have disorder. You say, well, don't you think there's worse drugs than sugar? Of course I do. I don't want you on crack cocaine. But guess what? Just because there's White Lightning or Moonshine or Jack Daniels, I don't want you on beer or wine either. See, there's different degrees of this alcohol problem. And with stimulants, there's different degrees. But I don't want you on any stimulants, see. I want you on Holy Ghost stimulation. Dr. Richard F. Heller, Again in Carbohydrate Addicted Kids says Dr. T.W. Jones. reporting in the Journal of Pediatrics in 1995 documented that youngsters show an exaggerated adrenaline response to the consumption of sugar. Parents can perhaps finally feel confirmed in their own observation. What he's saying is they have now scientifically proven that when they eat sugar, just like when you take a drug, that child's adrenaline responses are released in its body. And he's having an adrenaline rush from the drug. So when you see that kid running around going crazy and turning circle and just acting erratic and disordered and uncontrollable. And you say, I think it has something to do with sugar. For a hundred years, they said, I think it has something to do with the sugar. It does have something to do with the sugar. And I believe in spanking them and taking them off drugs. I believe in both. Again, in sugar shock, research showed that if prisoners reduced their consumption of refined sugars, their antisocial behavior was reduced by an average of 50%. We're seeing this in all these different studies, all these different reports, same thing keeps showing up. Again, Tom Arnold admitted that cutting sugar out of his life was harder for him than kicking the drug crack. Why? Because sugar is everywhere. Now, I believe with the Holy Spirit and by following the Bible, you can kick these drugs. But the average person out here on the street, when it's everywhere, I was going to go to Wal-Mart, but I didn't want to buy the food, so-called food. I was going to get a whole big, giant box here and show you that you can't hardly buy anything today that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup or cane sugar in it. Whether it's ketchup or mustard or bread or pickles or pizza or soda or orange drink or whatever it is, you name it, if it's on the shelf, they stuck it in there. Sugar's everywhere. I feel totally like an addict, laments Lisette L. My drug of choice is sugar. After I have sugar, especially chocolate, I get an intense rush and a delicious high. But then suddenly everything comes to a screeching halt and I crash like a cocaine user. I wonder why. Michael Lamb, M.D., says, not to be hooked on sugar is abnormal nowadays. You really have to try not to do it. Well, you know what? Being pure and chaste is abnormal, too. You really got to try not to do it. Neuroscientists. Candace B. Peart, Ph.D., notice neuroscientist, former physiology and biophysics professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. argues, in my lectures I often used to show a slide of sugarcane. I asked my students, what's the difference between it and cocaine or heroin? Relying on refined sugar as a pick-me-up can be as addictive and, in terms of long-term health effects, can be quite as dangerous, says Dr. Perk, who, as a graduate student in the early 1970s, achieved acclaim for discovering the opiate receptor tied to addictive behavior. So, basically, she was a neuroscientist famous for her discoveries in drug addiction, dealing with the brain, and basically, she tells you plainly, that she'd like to know what the difference is. She classes sugar as a drug in the same class as these other narcotics. Can this be purred again? By the way, she's published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors, neuroscientists. I'm not following her religion, but her science here, or whatever that might be, but her science is interesting. She says if sugar were put on the market for the first time today, it would be difficult to get it past the FDA. Maybe not, though. Peter Macinnis in Bittersweet, The Story of Sugar, says in France too, sugar was under attack. Philippe Hekwit, at one time physician to Louis XIV, was adamant that sugar was an essentially treacherous substance of poison that used pleasure as a lure. In 1614, Garrison Cherries argued that sugar damaged the lungs. Around 1675, Dr. Thomas Willis, the discoverer of glycosuria, linked to diabetes, or another word for diabetes, or a symptom of diabetes. Basically, he's the father of modern diabetes science. And basically, since sugar had become popular, he noticed that people in England were starting to get this disease. Nothing like today, of course, but they're starting to see some of this disease. So, he became famous as the doctor who had some research in this area. And he agreed that sugar was damaging to the lungs and other things. And he also thought that sugar was the cause of scurvy, which makes sense because if it's diminishing your vitamins, if it's depleting your vitamins, then you're going to have things like scurvy. Now, Thomas Willis, amazingly, is celebrated today as the founder of neuroscience. So, over and over we're having, whether it's back in the 1600s or modern neuroscientists today, they're basically all in agreement, for different reasons, that sugar is a drug and is dangerous. This Thomas Willis, who, the founder of clinical neuroscience, is considered to be one of the greatest neuroanatomists of all time. His work also formed the foundation of basic neuroanatomical description and nomenclature and comparative neuroanatomy. By combining his insightful clinical observations with his original pathological studies, his inquiring mind established links that are still astonishing 300 years on. Yeah, why don't you mention one of his other links? That sugar causes diabetes and a whole bunch of other diseases. For these reasons, Willis' name and achievement should be proclaimed to every new generation of neuroscientists. It should be proclaimed to every generation of nutritionists as well. And they ought to do something that would really help. Jesus said, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. I'm going to tell you something, bread gives you life. Good food, whole grain bread gives you life. Do you know what? How can you be a doctor and not study nutrition? How can you be a so-called doctor and not understand how to eat and how to stay away from drugs? They can't do anything unless you understand nutrition, but cut you up or put you on dope. And I believe sometimes you need doctors, but try to find a good one that knows how to do something else besides cut and dope. Try to find somebody that's actually read a nutrition book. Sugar Shot says, internationally renowned neuroscientist Bartley G. Hubbell, PhD, a Princeton University professor, has spent four decades, here again, a neuroscientist, has spent four decades studying how the brain controls appetite and addictive behavior. Since 1996, he has spearheaded a series of studies on the effects of sugar. When humans or rats addicted to morphine or heroin receive Naloxone, they instantly go into withdrawal. Curiously, the rats fed sugar also went into the same type of withdrawal. So what you're having is at the beginning of the century, you had this burst of scientific information from doctors that said that's a stimulant like cocaine, stay away from it, don't give it to children. Then you had this great denial, this great marketing campaign to shut all that up and pretend that the majority of doctors were kooks. Now, after all of these years, it's coming back out with these neuroscientific studies to where they're finding out now, hey, these earlier guys were righter than we care to admit, see. What he found out was when you put these rats upon this blocking drug, They will no longer be addicted to any drug. They'll still eat food, but they will not be addicted to morphine or heroin. Well, come to find out, it blocked sugar addiction, showing that sugar was in the same class as morphine or heroin. If it was a normal food, it wouldn't have blocked it, you see. That's the argument. As Dr. Scott Olstein in Sugarettes tells us, rats that were given sugar occasionally and then allowed to eat as much as they desired, binged on sugar. The ingestion of sugar caused changes in their brains similar to rats that were addicted to morphine-like drugs. I found these papers on the internet, but I'll just go ahead and read these summaries to you. The researchers noted that there were some minor differences between the brains of opiate-addicted Codeine, morphine, and heroin are opiate drugs. Rats and sugar-addicted rats. So there were some minor differences, as you would expect, since they're different drugs. But overall, the brain response was similar. You can find that in Brain Research, Molecular Brain Research 2004 paper. When the sugar was removed from their diet, they showed signs of withdrawal, similar to the effects of withdrawal from other drugs, such as alcohol, nicotine, and opiate. Friend, you don't get that from a sweet potato or a piece of steak. You understand that? Nutritional Neuroscience 2005. Researchers in this review suggest there is a close link between opiates and sugar. The researchers in this study confirm that the consumption of sugar shows all the signs of addiction. The rat showed signs of withdrawal that any junkie would recognize. Their teeth chattered, their forepaw tremored, and they had head shaking. One way to know if someone is addicted to opioids is to give them a drug such as nalaxone. The rats, when given this drug, showed the exact same withdrawal symptoms. Removing sugar from the rats made them more likely to bite and be aggressive during this withdrawal time. These rats also, that's why your kids are screaming and hollering and aggressive. They're like little rats that need that sugar drug, you see. These rats will also release more dopamine in their brains. This is the exact dopamine in their brains. This is the exact response seen in other drug addicted brains. Neuroscience, 2005. Also changes in brain receptors as in other drugs. When given a choice, rats actually preferred sugar over cocaine. That's a better addiction, they said. In spite of the fact that cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs. Brain changes similar to those found in addicts of other drugs of abuse also occur in sugar addicts. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology 2007. Similar studies were repeated in Canada. But, you know, you do get some mainstream press, but it disappeared and nobody ever used it for how it needed to be used. Instead of some passing little, wow, isn't that something? Well, you need to do something with this information. MillerMcCune.com 2008, sugar is the new heroin? They did give you a headline here. New research shows sugar addiction is real. Lab rats coming off it exhibit some of the same behavior as junkies in need of a fix. Chocoholism may no longer be a joke. A Princeton University psychologist yesterday presented new evidence that sugar can be physically addicted. If that sounds alarmist, consider that the rat suffering from sugar withdrawal exhibited some of the same behavior as junkies in need of a fix. These include shattering teeth and a tendency to stay in a small tunnel rather than explore their maze, which Huddle considers a sign of anxiety. People say, well, but a lot of people can do sugar and they don't bounce around and have emotional disturbances and types of things. They're still running their health. But you know what? A lot of people drink alcohol and seem to do fine. A lot of people snort cocaine. A lot of businessmen snort cocaine and seem to be able to keep it together. That doesn't make it right. And you just wait, pretty soon it's going to grab them like a serpent. And not only that, what about the stumbling block there being to a whole bunch of others? Med headlines, 2008, sugar, cocaine, heroin, equally strong addiction study said. Now a new study from Princeton University using modern day scientific equipment, they might as well say, has documented exactly what the old physicians have said. has documented how sugar affects brain function the same way cocaine and heroin do. The alteration to brain function worked pretty much like the brain functions when addicted to cocaine and heroin, complete with psychological and physical symptoms of withdrawal when sugar was denied. First comes the sugar high, including the feel-good rush drug addicts crave. Next come the blues of withdrawal. So you got depression, crankiness, irritability, anxiety, paranoia. I tell you what, Somebody says, that sounds like my husband or that sounds like my wife. Well, they probably are addicted to sugar, probably sugar, caffeine and who knows what else? And one big giant mess. Maybe you've heard of Jack LaLanne. He's a fitness expert, well known for many, many years at 92. He says, in my mind, nothing on this earth is more addictive than refined sugar. I'm 92 and I feel like I'm 32. If you go to JackLalane.com, he was born in 1914 and he admitted during his childhood he was addicted to sugar and junk foods. An old program, I guess from the 50s or 60s, he says, in this country, see how many children have soft muscles? They look like sugar. He says, I know what I'm talking about. In that cereal is sugar. Then you pour more sugar on it. Then you have soft drinks and pies and cakes. And sugar takes away your energy and your vitality. When you have to have your sugar, why don't you eat fresh fruit and protein? You'll be thanking me for the rest of your natural life. Don't be a sugarholic. That was a good word way back in the days, wasn't it? Recently, at the age of 95, now 96, Lalaine continues to work out every morning for two hours. He spends one and a half hours in the weight room and a half hour swimming or walking. When interviewed by Katie Couric on NBC's Today Show, Lalaine said, if man made it, don't eat it. And if it tastes good, spit it out. Without even knowing it, that's pretty much been my philosophy. And I believe it's a biblical one. You know what? When people say, well, I don't like honey. It doesn't taste good. That's what you need to eat. You're messed up in your taste buds. Okay? You've been messed up. I don't like carob. I like chocolate. You know what? You've been artificially stimulated in your taste buds by scientists, and you need to learn what real food tastes like. And then a strange thing happens. After a while, you start liking real food. You say, my children won't eat. Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? A parent who's called to raise a child. My children just won't eat it. What in the world's going on here? Why don't you find a mom or daddy? Bring them over to my house. I promise you in a couple of weeks, I'll give your kid back and they'll like it. It's true, I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious. It's amazing what this guy was able to do in his 70s. I mean, you know, he has all types of Hollywood feats where he gets out and 70 years old or something and he pulls these giant boats and ships and swims across, you know, it's just. And he might not be be totally right in regard to health, but he sure is close. I don't know where he is spiritually, but he's close as far as physical health goes. Sugar is the devil. Sugar is kiddy cocaine, says Marilou Henner and Healthy Kids. In Sugar Shock, Dr. Terrell agrees sugar and drugs are similar in the way they affect the brain. I wonder why. John W. Tintera says it is quite possible to improve your disposition, increase your efficiency and change your personality for the better. The way to do it is to avoid cane and beat sugar in all forms and guises. I'm not telling you you don't need Christ. I'm not telling you, you don't need to exercise self-control and discipline in your life. I'm not telling you that you don't need the Holy Spirit. But I'm telling you, you don't need drugs. Do you understand? And even the average Gentile out here that's lost could improve his behavior if he got off drugs. And maybe he could come to church and sit still and listen to a sermon and actually be able to concentrate without having his mind all cloudy and fogged from the dope he's doing. Who knows what revival would hit America if preachers would stand up and say, I'm going to rebuke the false prophets of advertising and marketing. I'm going to rebuke them. I'm going to expose them for my people. I'm going to stand up, stand in the gap, take a stand against people doing drugs. And I'm going to rebuke the false prophets of this age. If preachers did that across America, do you know what type of revival we would have? I think the Holy Ghost would say, well, now I will enter your church. Now I will enter your heart. I think we'd have Holy Ghost revival, folks. You can't have Holy Ghost revival. You've got caffeine, chocolate, sugar highs. And the Holy Ghost says, I guess you don't need me. Laodicea says, I'm rich and in need of nothing. I'm doing fine. William Dufty again in 1975 says, today, Pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry such as Dr. A. Hofner, Dr. Alan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin, as well as Dr. Linus Pauling have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbances can be merely the first symptom of obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency. In other words, mental illness, unless you have brain retardation or some type of serious physical problem with your brain, it is a misnomer. It is a marketing scam. So they can fit anything they want and put you on dope, see. Mental illness means that you're high on coke, you're high on alcohol, you're high on some stimulant like caffeine or something and you're intoxicated by it. That might be one of the reasons that you have so-called mental illness. And I know what's happening in churches across America. They're putting them on worse things than caffeine or sugar could ever have been. They're putting them on such powerful drugs. And they say, well, we're such compassionate people. The whole thing needs to be exposed. ACOT, an orthomolecular approach to the treatment of learning disabilities, does inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as so-called schizophrenic, reveals the diet of their choice is rich in sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods prepared with sugar. That's exactly what we found when we did the caffeine study, and now we're finding you might as well just add another stimulant to it. Cane sugar and caffeine equals what they call schizophrenia. which you call up and down, laughing, crying, emotional insanity in your home. But see, that's become normal in most houses of America. It's normal because drugs have become normal. William Duffy says humans need sugar as much as they need the nicotine and tobacco. Neil D. Bernard and Joanne Stepanek in Breaking the Food's Seduction says sugar triggers the release of natural opiates within the brain just as chocolate does, as we saw earlier. It doesn't just taste good, it turns on the opiate machinery deep within their brain. When researcher Adam Drunowski gave the opiate blocker Naloxone to volunteers, it not only blocked chocolate cravings, it also cut the craving for potato chips. But strangely, it didn't block popcorn, but it blocked Oreos, Snickers, M&Ms, and potato chips. In other words, in the brain, it was reading that as a sugar high, see. Chocolate is an affair. It's decadent. It's sinful. Isn't that how the marketing goes? Even their marketing goes decadent. What are you really admitting here? The truth is that chocolate is... They're showing the love-hate relationship that people have when you do dope. You hate your dope, but you actually love it. You hate it, but you love it. The truth is that chocolate is, in essence, an addicting drug. It targets the same spot on your brain as heroin or morphine. Traces of compounds similar to THC and ecstasy are found in it. It's not just a single drug-like compound. It's basically the whole drugstore. And we see that with the caffeine and theobromine and all of the other stuff that's inside of it, not to mention cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup and who knows what else. Kathleen Dismasons, PhD says, yes, you can get addicted to sugar, sweet foods and white flour products, which your body responds to as if they were sugars. In other words, there's no food there, you see. This addiction is physiological and affects the same biochemical systems in your body that are affected by addictive drugs like morphine and heroin. You can actually get high on sugar. Eating it can make you feel euphoric immediately. If you don't have your regular sugar fix, you can experience withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, headache, and other flu-like symptoms. Your body can become physiologically dependent upon the effects the sugars have on you. Dr. David Rubin Everything you always wanted to know about nutrition. Author says white refined sugar is not a food. It is a pure chemical extracted from plant sources. Pure, in fact, than cocaine. Now, when they say pure, this is what the sugar companies do. I'll show you this this afternoon. The sugar companies say this is pure. Well, so is cocaine. That doesn't mean it's not a pure food. It's a pure drug. which it resembles in many ways. Its true name is sucrose and its chemical formula is C12H22011. The chemical formula for cocaine is C17H21NO4. For all practical purposes, the difference is that sugar is missing the N or nitrogen atom. We are finding out scientifically cocaine and sugar are very close. Much in the same way wine and Jack Daniels are close. But the so-called softer alcohol can be more dangerous and be a bigger gateway because it's less ominous. We're finding out that you don't really need to be a neuroscientist to understand these things. If you really know how to read your body and observe, you can see. Wow. And you actually get to where you can tell if something has it in there. You can get to a point after so many years not having it in your body that you know there's a difference between honey and cane sugar. One acts like a drug in my mind. The other gives me revival and vitality, but it doesn't give me a drug fix. See, you can observe in your children. You can observe in the behavior of America and you can certainly see the health problems that are happening as sugar skyrockets like never before in the history of mankind. When God says the nations are mad, that's Bible prophecy. Perilous times shall come. God says in Romans 13, put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh. to fulfill the lusts thereof." Mr. Eber, you'll come sing whatever songs on your heart today. Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision. You know what provision means? It means food. The Bible is saying, do not feed your flesh. Do not put anything in your mouth that would allow you to become a person God does not want you to be. or anything like a drug, anything like drunkenness. And I believe speed is like drunkenness. It's a form of drunkenness. Paul, even talking about good things in 1 Corinthians 6, says, I will not be brought under the power of any. If you've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people and support groups and blogs and more and more books, more and more scientists, more and more criminal experts, all of these people writing these books say sugar is causing these problems. It's addictive. People can't get away from it. Should a Christian be addicted in this way? I have seen through pastoring all these years that the people who do the most sugar have the most emotional problems and the most health problems. It's true. After watching people for 17 years, it is absolutely true. Paul says, I will not be brought under the power of any. That means anything. You are brought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit with your God. Bring your body under the submission of the Holy Ghost through His wisdom in the Bible. Look not at the wine. Look not at it, because it'll grab you. You say, I think I can handle it. Well, can your children handle it? And maybe you can't handle it the way you think you can handle it. You say, what do we do? It's everywhere. I know, so sin. You say, but when I go to the store, everywhere I look, it's in every single package. Hey, you think the Lord, they're at least showing you what's in the package to some degree. It could be worse. But the lust of the flesh is everywhere. Every magazine, every billboard, everywhere you look, these are dangerous, perilous times, folk. It's perilous physically and it's perilous spiritually. You can't give up and faint. You can't say, well, what do I do? You've got to roll up your sleeves in a manly way and say, well, you know what? I've seen people be able to do this by the Holy Ghost power. I can do it too through the Holy Ghost power. And in a few months, once you get over your withdrawal, you come to me and give a testimony of how much better you feel now that you're not on drugs. As our dear sister sings, I'll show you this afternoon. a little bit of the marketing scams and how we got to where we're at in America today. Because the sermon I just preached is going to sound so insane to folks that want to close their mind. But I'm going to show you why it sounds insane. I'm going to show you the false prophets who made things the way they are today. And you will be shocked to see how we got where we're at today. But right now, this is repentant time. Right now, this is time for you to come Lay on the altar whatever has had you bound by God's power to let some things go so you can get emotional health. Maybe your marriage will be saved. Who knows? Your relationship with people at church will be saved because you got off drugs. Let's do it today. Sister, sing. I'm going to call some folks forward. You come pray for somebody. You come do business with God. Today's Surrender Day. Don't just sit there hard. This is Surrender Day. Now is the day. I'm here to help you in love. I'm not trying to hurt you. God's not trying to hurt you. God's trying to help you. He's trying to save your family. Trying to keep your teeth from rot now. God's trying to help you today. God bless those that are praying, wherever they be, Lord. Is there anything in your life that you're under the power of? Let it go. Let it go. I don't even want to have the appearance of evil. I let go of some things I love just because they have the appearance. Why don't you surrender it today? Dear Holy God, I do ask in the name of Jesus that you would move upon this church. That we would learn the power of Holy Ghost living of being filled with thy spirit and learn the true blessing that comes from addiction-free living. God, I'm sure not many in Laodicea will lay down their idols. But Lord, I pray wherever there are kingdom-minded Christians who understand the coming judgment seat of Christ and understand the warnings you even gave about good food, Lord. How much more should we be warned in regard to drugs and stimulants? Oh, God, move upon Kingdom Baptist Church and all of our friends who listen, fellowship with us. Oh, God, let there be a move of good health, good emotional stability, and a sound mind that understands thy will. In the name of Jesus, bless our lunch together and our sweet fellowship. Amen.