As he's passing out our notes, we're going to open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 11. And we have been preaching week after week on this head covering series. And we want to go to the Lord in prayer and pray that this would be blessed. Dear Father, thank you for this day. The wonderful activities and awards and beautiful songs and We pray right now as we open your holy word again, that God, you'd open our hearts, that you'd help us to understand thy word. Challenge us, Lord. And we pray to just perfect ourselves, being good stewards of this body, of our spirits and souls. And we do thank you for your grace and for the Bible in the name of Jesus. Amen. Verse 11, chapter 11, verse 14 says, does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering as we are wrapping up the epistle to the Ephesians. We're also wrapping up this head covering series. I want you to see that a woman's long hair is a glory to her. Do you see that? Hey, I don't want to leave this subject to where you understand it. And I want to see some more glory in the church. OK? I want to see some more glory. And what I'm asking is that you will take these verses and basically say, preacher, I heard it. I saw it week after week. I understand it. And praise God, we can move on now to the Lord's Supper, OK? But if I get an idea that we just missed it somehow or another, then I've got to go back and we've got to start preaching on it a couple more weeks. We're going to title this message Hair, Letting the Glory Shine. Amen? After many months of deep study on this section, I'm in some pretty deep stuff. I mean, you got pictures here, you've got history, you've got so much that we've covered. And really what we've done is we've taken boxes and boxes and boxes of articles and tapes and books and. I've ordered just about everything that's ever been published that I could find, read every single debate that I could get a hold of. And we've got a lot of material that we've condensed down and summarized to you over these past months. And I pray that it's challenged you, giving you a better understanding about some things. We're going to do a lighter study this week after so many months of deeper teaching, but I want you to understand that what I'm saying today, though it's a lighter study compared to a lot of the other sermons, it still contains some deep, deep truths. If you'll open your eyes to them. Sometimes we can sigh and say, why do we need to know this type of stuff? And what I want you to see. And it's more important than you realize, because Satan wants to destroy and he wants to destroy your body. And if you don't realize some of the things he's doing to destroy your body, we're going to have our lives cut short before our time. And that's not God's will. That's not God's ultimate pleasure. And, you know, modern Christians get uncomfortable when you get out of the clouds and start dealing with the physical world. They do. They get uncomfortable. And you know why? Because there's a form of Gnosticism that has invaded our churches. Now listen, if you deny the spiritual and only deal with the body, you might as well be like the homosexuals that shop at Whole Foods and they don't really care about the spiritual world and what God says about sin, but they want to make sure they eat organic. That's just crazy, isn't it? So that's a foolish form of Gnosticism, to just stress this world and forget about the coming of Jesus. Forget about our spirits. Forget about our souls. Forget about eternal things. That's Gnosticism. But to tell you the truth, the Gnosticism that the Bible, that false teaching, if you read the epistle to first John, there was a form of Gnosticism that was opposite to that. And it was a false teaching that stressed the spirit to the neglect of the body. And it said it doesn't matter what you do in your body, it's just the body. It doesn't matter how you dress, that's just the body. All that matters is the heart. And they went so far with that teaching that they say Jesus never resurrected in His body. It was just His Spirit. Because everything, all the emphasis was placed on the spiritual and nothing to do with the material. You know what? I think in some ways that's where we're at today. I mean, there's some carnal folks that don't even think. They're like Esau, and they're profane. They just want to eat. They just want to concentrate on the physical world, and they don't care about eternal things. But if you think about the Christians today, many of them are, teach me anything about my heart, but when you start talking about my life, when you start talking about my body, when you start talking about this physical world where I actually have to do something, that's where I draw the line. Y'all listening? Amen? Satan wants to turn everything that God meant as a glory into a shame. If God said something's a glory, Satan wants you to become a shame. He wants you to dishonor your bodies. You know what Ichabod means? Ichabod means the glory has departed. And when you read over there in the Old Testament, there came a time when the glory of God departed. But you know, when the glory of God's departing, what also departs is anything God said was glorious departs and becomes a dishonor. The Bible says long hair on the women is a glory. That's what it said. And Roloff said back in the 70s, we're starting to get real short on glory. We're starting to get real short on glory. God made man upright, but Satan wants to turn him into an animal. What does he want to do? He wants to defile whatever God said was glorious. When we walk with the Lord, you're going to walk in glory, not the dishonor of sin and perversion. Look at 1 Chronicles 16. Glory and honor are in his presence. Do you see that when you're fellowshipping with God? When you're walking in His presence, when you're going to a church that God's presence is manifest in, you're going to start getting the glory back. Do you understand? Not only the glory of God, but that manifestation and symbol of God's glory. Do you want God to be in our presence? Do you want to be in God's presence? Okay, well understand, you're going to start getting the glory back. That's good, isn't it? Well, the glory and honor in His presence, what do you think is outside of His presence? Shame and dishonor, right? So if God's not in a church, you're going to have a lot of shame and a lot of dishonor. You say, well, what's going to be dishonored? Anything God said was a glory is now going to be turned into a shame. There it is, as simple as can be. Psalms 4 says, Oh, you sons of man, how long will you turn my glory into shame? There it is, isn't it? How long are you going to turn my glory into shame? You say, what do you mean? Well, the glory of the Lord and the manifestations of everything God said is glorious is being turned into shame. You say, can you give me an example? Sure. Proverbs 17 says, the glory of children are their what? Fathers. What does this age want to hide? When you start getting a warped world that is perverted, Men come under attack. So the justice system down here in the courts, are they fair to men? No. Hollywood, is it fair to men? No, it turns man into a buffoon, a baboon, doesn't it? They make the man to be this passive, horrible person that everybody just tells jokes about. That's what's happening. But the Gloria children are their fathers, but if you're living in an age that's not dwelling with God. It says glory is in His presence. So that means fathers, wherever you have the presence of God in the church, fathers are going to be magnified and glorified. Do you see that? They're going to be uplifted. But in a world that puts down men, it's because God's not there. It's because God's not there. And what about this? Proverbs 20. The glory of young men is their strength. I tell you what, if God's manifesting in the church, you're going to start getting young men that are bold, that get out here and work. You don't have to tell them to work. They're not little wimps. They're not passive little sissies. They know how to be boys. They know how to grow up and be men. You're going to have young men that know how to work, young men that know how to get the job done. They got backbone. They're not quitters. They're workers. Do you see it? But what does this world want to do to the boys? I don't want to do that. It's too hot. Make them whiny, sissies. Is that what you want? A church filled with young men that are a bunch of sissies and cowards? We need the glory back. And when you walk with God and get in His presence, He starts restoring all the glories. But when you get away from God, it's shame. People start raising their children and you don't know if it's a boy or a girl. You say, how'd that happen to that boy? They got away from God. They got away from God. And when you get out of God's presence, all the glories become shame. Isn't that something? We therefore need to let the glories that God has ordained shine, but Satan wants to cover them up, mess them up. And you know what a symbol of all of this is seen in the long hair of the women. There comes a time when God looked at Israel and says, women, I want you to cut off all your hair. And they said, why? That would be a shame. And they say, I know, but all the glory has departed. The glory has departed. Israel, we're full of a bunch of sin. And symbolically, we want the women to show that this nation has lost the presence of God. I tell you, America in the 1920s, they began to cut their hair off and they continue to do it and continue to do it. And some of you ladies have grown up in that environment and we've been through all of that. And I'm not here yelling at anybody. I'm just showing what happened to us historically and how we need to begin to get our glory back. Amen? And you know, a symbol of all of this is the long hair of the women. And women need to do what they can to study and experiment in wise ways to preserve their what? Preserve their glory. And that's what I'm challenging. I've given you the theological, the historical and mainly the biblical. I've given you all of that. And today, if I could sum all this up, and you say, well, what are you really trying to say today? It's this. Ladies, begin to look at some of the physical things you can do. Research it. Don't accept any of the myths that are out there. You know, they've got all kinds of myths. Black women can't grow long hair. Don't listen to those myths. All of you, get together. Do some research. You understand? Research and begin to Explore and experiment in godly wise ways and let's get the glory back. OK, that's what I'm challenging you to do. Because, you know, the devil comes to rob you. He does. And if you let him, he'll rob you of your glory. The devil comes to destroy through lies. He's a liar, isn't he? Satan wants to destroy us before our time. Do you know you can die before your time? Look at Ecclesiastes 7, neither be thou foolish, why should thou die before thy time? My people are destroyed for what? Lack of knowledge. And what is this? That's being foolish, right? So a lot of times, people are out here getting hurt and are dying, and they say, well, it was just their time. No, it wasn't. God might have given them another 15 years, another 25 years, another 50 years. But they went out here, they were foolish, and they let the devil kill them. Is that wise? A young boy gets out here and starts drinking alcohol, and he gets out here and he's running his car all over the place, getting DUIs and going crazy. Is he foolish? If he gets in a car wreck, would you say that's just his time? Or would you say, you know, he was very foolish? He was very foolish and he went out here and died before his time. Well, you'd say that's very foolish, but there's other ways Christians can be very foolish that are pretty much the same thing in many ways. Why shouldst thou die before thy time? Do you know cancer is skyrocketing today? Just a report the other day. Oh, God forbid. But just to show you how every day there's a new article. Here's one in the AP. Global cancer rates or cases are projected to rise 75% by 2030. They've already been, if you look at a chart, it's just, it's off the charts. And they went on to link it to mainly bad habits and diet. And you know what's sad? Cancer brings radiation and radiation is poison. They ought to treat it through radiation and drugs, harmful chemical cocktails of poison. And one of the signs of a cancer patient is a bald head. Because that radiation kills their hair. And what's sad is if we are getting this destruction through no fault of our own, that's one thing. But if we are participating and doing foolish things, I'm here to say, let's quit being foolish so we can quit this destruction that's happening upon our churches and upon our people in America today. And you see the devil glorying and laughing that that is the ultimate shaving that hair off or having the hair fall out. That's what he wants. That's what he wants. Ultimately, he wants to kill them. Folks, whatever we can do to prevent such a thing, we should do. Do you agree? And many times you stare up at the clouds for toxic poisoning. You're getting asthma, you're getting all kinds of anemia, you're getting all kinds of poisons and you're looking up at the clouds and really, I've seen some of what you're talking about. I've seen some of the documentaries about stuff being dropped. Folks, it's one thing to look up at the clouds and I have A suspicion that you're probably right about things being dropped, all kinds of weather experiments and population control. Who knows? But listen to me, folks. You don't have to look up into the clouds. Just look at what you're sticking in your bodies. Look at what you're putting on your plate. And let me tell you something. If you're sticking something on your plate that is killing you and you're looking, you say, look up that stuff being sprayed on that airplane. You ought to see the stuff you sprayed under your arm this morning. I mean, you want to look up at an airplane. I'm glad you're doing it. But you got more toxins in your bathroom than you ever even realize. The stuff you're cleaning your glass with, all the stuff you're spraying on your body that says, warning, do not eat. But as long as you leave it on your body for a little while, we think it'll be all right. What is this stuff? It's got a list this big. You couldn't pronounce it if you tried. You don't know what this stuff is. You haven't the slightest idea. And the people that are writing articles about it, they don't know what it is. They just say no tests have ever been done to show that this stuff's dangerous. Well, a lot of times, most of that stuff, they do already know it's dangerous. Other countries of the world have banned the stuff. But it's still put in all your products, all your ingredients. Y'all getting bored with this kind of preaching? That's coming out of airplanes. We're breathing that stuff. Well, you're already breathing it in your house. You're paying money to breathe it. They don't gotta escort it from an airplane. You're paying money to not only breathe it, to put it all over your body. Even if it produces nice hair for a time, what's it gonna look like? If you got cancer. Was it worth it? God forbid. The first goal of good health is to get right with God, right? Quit sinning, quit all your bad habits that are sin. I'm talking big sin, but there's a lot of things that are weights that God says also to get rid of. Weights can also destroy your health. So after you get rid of those big sins, Let's get rid of some of this toxic chemical food. I have a vision of eating right. I have a vision of getting your food from afar if you have to, doing whatever you got to do to eat right. Hey, let's get rid of some of these toxic cleansers in your home that can cause cancer and liver damage and skin problems. You say, why do you think so-and-so is having these problems? Well, the first thing I would do is get rid of cigarettes, get rid of Beer drinking and all that stuff. You say, oh, we're way past that, preacher. OK. Well, then I'd say, what do you got on your plate? I mean, God says there's unclean stuff that you should never eat. Are you going and eating all that stuff? You're eating these critters out of the ocean that can't clean themselves. You're eating that stuff and you're getting all that algae all inside your body, getting that trichinosis and all those worms. I mean, before you go look at some great big thing and your eyes are on the ends of the earth, why don't you start with what you're sticking on your plate? If you said, oh, we got a great diet preacher. OK, praise God, you got clean food, doing the best you can clean water, clean food. Well, then I would say before you start looking at some far away thing. What are you sticking all over your body every single day and breathing as you stick it on your body? What are you cleaning with? And I'm not here to make any of you cleaners mad. Praise God for every one of you. Praise God for how beautiful our church looks and praise God for all your gifts. I am trying to encourage you to be wiser about the way you clean, not only clean your body, but clean your house. Knowing that these things are filled with toxic cancer, causing pollutions, They produce a green movement with green products. And so you walk into the store and you said, this is natural chicken. That's great. Natural chicken. Oh, no, preacher, we always get natural chicken. Do you know what that means? Nothing. It means nothing. It means they didn't stick any preservatives, maybe in the plastic, but it's still got chicken with antibiotics. And not only that, what does the chicken eat? What do they feed that chicken the whole life? Well, I brought green shampoo. It's an organic shampoo. But what does it have in there? What are the ingredients? We use green dishwashing liquid. It's environmental friendly. What's in there? Oh, they hide the ingredients. You can't even see them. And it wouldn't matter anyway, because they said that US regulations says that they don't have to tell you all the ingredients, even in the green products that's inside there. Mercola had a nice article that I think it would be practical. A lot of people say, well, he's got some new age ideas. Hey, maybe you ought to learn some of his practical knowledge. And I'm all with you in criticizing some of his spiritual belief. But maybe some of the practical things you ought to master before we criticize. And I'm all for, believe me, rebuking sin and rebuking all that hocus pocus magic and hypnotism and whatever. But we got a problem among Christians that say, you know, this fella, he's messed up. Well, maybe you ought to learn a little bit of his wisdom. You know, we got Dave Ramsey, you know. I don't like a lot of stuff that Dave Ramsey does. I don't like his rock and roll. I don't like what he says about men in the house. There's a lot of things I don't like. But maybe we better learn some basic common sense from Dave Ramsey before you criticize. You understand? Do you get my point? My point is, it's far better that you live up to the wisdom that people have, then criticize. Sometimes what we say is we're not going to listen to what anybody says, because there might be a little error. And I appreciate that. But we ought to let God speak. I believe that there's some folks out here that are trying to get your attention, and it should be the Christians that are leading the way. If we're the light of the world, we ought to be the ones at the forefront telling people about these things. Oh, we got a much more important message than just your body. But we ought to love the whole man. We ought to love the body. We ought to love the soul. We ought to love the spirit. I don't want to get so hung up on the body that we neglect the soul. God forbid. How crazy is that? But to sit back and say, spiritual health, may you prosper, and everybody's going home, breathing in cancer, liver destroying stuff, and you're watching your church, and you're burying everybody every couple of weeks, and the pastor's smiling and says, oh, we don't get off into that health stuff. Well, you're sure burying a lot of people. Maybe you should start getting into some of it. Amen? Mercola says commercial cleaning products, even green ones, like Simple Green, clean faster than soap and water can, but this is because they contain small amounts of the most powerful grease-cutting class of chemicals known as glycol ethers. Overexposure to glycol ethers causes anemia. That's when you got low iron in your bloodstream. You're tired. Intoxication. Irritation of the eyes and nose. In laboratory animals, low level exposure to glycol ethers is called birth defect. Damage to the whole reproductive system. The most commonly used glycol ether has been shown to cause liver cancer in animals. You're exposed to glycol ethers when you inhale them as the cleanser is used. Most glycol ethers can silently penetrate your skin, enter your bloodstream. If that were not enough, the glycol ethers also go through natural rubber gloves. and many type of plastic gloves without changing their appearance. Having a clean home should never cost you something as valuable as your health. The problem is when the chemicals in these common household products hit your skin, hit your lung, they go directly into your bloodstream bypassing your body's natural defense system. See, I always ask one question. What did they do before the chemical age? Were people just dirty? You know. I understand with harsh chemicals you can get things done faster, but man's really foolish this way. He goes, we ain't gonna put up with no worms getting on our food. Uh-uh. We're not gonna get out here and have to pray every day for our crops and use, you know, wise stuff that they've had. of all these years of learning and praying and how to grow food. Sometimes the bug's going to get some of your food, fellas. You understand that? But when you eat an apple, it ought to look like a few bugs have eaten that apple. You understand? When it starts getting shiny and looks like no bug has eaten it, something's wrong, folks. And I'm telling you, man, fills it full of poison, kills all the frogs, kills all the bees, kills all the bugs, gives him cancer. But he says, I don't have to put up with nothing. I don't have to worry about it. Is that wise? Come on, folks. Glycol, ethers, widespread use in paints and perfumes and soaps and cosmetics and foods that cause fatigue, lethargy, nausea, possible liver and kidney damage. You got these phthalates that cause reproductive harm, endocrine disruption, cancer, organ damage. Perfumes cause headaches, sinus problems, asthma, intoxication and even addiction. Phosphates, they've reduced Eliminated phosphates from laundry products, but no action has ever been taken on dishwasher detergents. Then you got these NPEs, common ingredient laundry detergents and all purpose cleansers, banned in Europe. It's already thought to be the cause of male fish transforming into these deformed looking female fish things. Volatile organic compounds cause nose and throat irritation, dizziness and asthma. Ammonia, irritation to the skin, eyes and lungs. Chlorine, irritation to the skin, eyes and lungs. Sodium lauryl sulfate, skin irritant, ire to potential cancer causer. Unfortunately, the terms green and natural are nothing more than marketing terms. Most green cleansing products like Simple Green are still loaded with glycol, ether, which are anything but good for your health, and inhaled are when they touch your skin. In the case of household cleansers, Even the most meticulous eye for labels won't get you far. Why? Because many of the most dangerous chemicals will not even be on the label. The manufacturers have conveniently lobbied the government to exempt them from this requirement, and they can omit any ingredient that is considered a secret formula from its label. So what do you have today? You're living in a world where You've got the spiritual world that's a toxic, dangerous world of satanic danger. But you've got the physical world that's a toxic world of physical danger. And we're breathing that stuff and we're destroying the world. And God finally says in the book of Revelation, he gets fed up with it all. And he says he comes to destroy those that destroy the earth. We're destroying this world. You understand that we're destroying our health. We're suffering with things that we shouldn't be suffering with. So the first thing you do, We did this many, many years ago. The first thing you do is you say, I'm going to quit using all of those regular name brand stuff. So you start buying the Jason and the Avalon shampoos and all of that. Well, there's people around the country that are organizing right now, standing up outside their companies, calling them fakers. saying you people are putting out these products that are supposed to be good, but look at the ingredients you're using. And you're actually giving everybody the impression that these things are healthy. But you know what? Let me just tell you plainly. When man isolates something and turns it into a synthetic chemical, and he starts manipulating it, and it comes up being this long word that you couldn't pronounce if you tried, and he says, we don't think this thing will hurt you as long as you don't eat it. And then you're putting it on your body and you're smelling it. I don't care if it says Jason or Avalon or whatever. I don't care if it's got the word natural. I don't care if it says we put a little bit of honey in here. I don't care what it says. You're breathing a bunch of toxic chemicals and if you're getting a headache, getting asthma, getting anemia, getting health problems and who knows what else, why don't we just start thinking a little bit? About maybe I shouldn't trust these people. That's one thing I had to learn. You can't trust the health food community. You can't. They want money just like everybody else. And the love of money is the root of all evil. And you have to learn. And I'm just telling you, the more things you do, don't get depressed on me. Don't don't don't go anywhere. We're still we're still preaching. Listen to me. The more you learn about this stuff, the better. The more we learn to do naturally, the better. Right now, you're a guinea pig for a giant, massive, toxic experiment. There was a generation that was an experiment for Crisco. You know all about that, 1920. We're going to get rid of butter and we're going to give you this Crisco margarine stuff. They killed a whole generation of your grandparents and great-grandparents. Now they say, American Heart Association, they say, oh, don't use Crisco, don't use margarine. Wait a second. You told us now for 80 years to use this stuff. Oh, I know, but we found out it was wrong. So you're telling me that whole generation was a toxic experiment? And that's what you are right now. All these new chemicals. You are a guinea pig to see what happens when they do these things. So my question is this, ladies, listen. How can women grow their hair and keep it shiny and clean without ingesting toxic chemicals into their bodies? That's the question. That's the question. And I'm not here giving you all the answers. I'm here challenging you to research, use your gifts as women. And let's try to come up with these answers. OK, I'm going to give you some information. But I want you to Figure out how to grow long, beautiful hair without killing yourself. Now, some of the Pentecostals say that it's a sin to ever trim your hair. I've got a stack of books that claim if you ever stick scissors to your hair, you sinned against God. You say that they have long, beautiful hair. A lot of them do, but a lot of them have short hair and a lot of them because they say it's OK to perm it, just don't cut it. And so a lot of them are walking around with short hair that's been burned by chemical perms, but they say never use scissors. So I want to say right now, I want everybody to listen. I don't believe it's wrong to trim your hair. You have Mephibosheth, before he stood before David, he trimmed his beard. He didn't shave the thing off, he trimmed it. If your hair needs a little trimming because of split ends, trim it. What I rebuke is the game. What I rebuke is, oh, I'm just getting the split ends cut out. Wink, wink. And then you cut six inches off the stuff. Oh, we had to get down to the hell. I'm against the whole deception of saying you're cutting off split ends and you're never growing your hair. You're listening. See, what I teach against is people saying, I'm just getting tired of having long hair. It's a lot to manage. It's a lot to have to do. And I just want something different. So let me go the short way. But what I did was I had to get rid of my split ends. But that wasn't the real reason that you cut your hair. Where's everybody at? Y'all here? All right. Now time to walk around and get a drink of water. Amen. We're preaching. Y'all listening. Now, how can women grow their hair and keep it shiny and clean without ingesting toxic chemicals into their bodies? Long before Y2K. I was researching how to make your own shampoo. I ordered plants like soapwort and got in the sink and started mixing all that stuff together, and I can never get that stuff to foam. You know, as you take beans and you run water over them, it starts bubbling. You're like, how did I get this detergent inside my beans? That's not dish detergent. That's that soap that's naturally in those beans. The Indians would take those beans and get that soap out of those plants and you could kill fish with it. You get soap out of plants. But it's never this amazing lather that you get from the chemical. So I began to do what I could to try to figure out how to make shampoo. I made a big mistake along the way that we'll talk about as we go on. But here's the big question that we got to ask, that I want to ask. What did the ancient people do to clean? Isn't that a good question? What did they eat? What modern man says is your forefathers were ignorant and stupid, especially if it was in the days of the Bible. They were idiots. They didn't know what to do about anything. But now we're so sophisticated and smart. Well, hey, they said eat butter. These modern folks said use margarine. Who was the foolish person? The modern folks, the doctors, they said Jesus said an egg is good. What do the modern folks say? Well, they said for a lot of decades now they're going back and saying, oh, eggs are good. Well, for decades, you said every doctor says they're bad. So let's not assume that our forefathers, especially, God forbid, our biblical forefathers, were foolish about some common sense things. Let's assume that they were wise. Especially if God's telling them what to do. So what did the ancients, especially the Jews, used to clean with? First thing I'm going to tell you they used was water. It's amazing what water will clean, isn't it? It's amazing. Water cleans things. If you don't believe me, they clean their feet with water. It's pretty good, isn't it? If your feet can get cleaned by water, anything can get cleaned. Genesis 43, the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water and they washed their feet. But you know what else they had in the Bible days? They had baking soda. Sometimes it was in the forms of what we would call borax. Sometimes it was in the form of baking soda. You know, baking soda's been around for thousands of years, and it goes all the way back to the days of the Bible. They cleaned a lot with baking soda. You ever seen those books, A Thousand Uses of Baking Soda? Well, they knew all about that in Bible days. Let me show you. Genesis 2. For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thy iniquity is marked before me." So God mentions the two best cleansers that He knows of and says, though you use bacon soda and soap, you're not going to be able to get clean of your sin. Only God can clean sin by His blood. Amen? But hey, don't ignore what He just said. He said, how do you know niter is bacon soda? Well, because Not only from Bible encyclopedias, but over there and saw in Proverbs, it says if you add vinegar to niter, what happens? You get an explosion and just pour a little vinegar on baking soda and see what happens. But you can trace that word back to see they were digging that stuff out of the ground and. They call it washing soda today, baking soda. It's all forms of niter. But did you notice what other word they used? So, what I'm saying is the ancients in Bible days knew how to take water, they knew how to use washing soda, they knew how to use baking soda to get theirselves and their environment clean. But that's not all they had. They also had soap. Now, do you think that was some chemical soap? No, it was soap. Take thee much soap. They had soap. Soap is good. It says in Malachi 3, who may abide the day of his coming, who shall stand when he appeareth, for he is like a refiner's fire and like what? Fuller soap. They made soap. They probably knew how to make it out of olive oil. It's good to make soap. They also had vinegar with vinegar, clean a lot on it. And you know what? They've had some of these bathroom cleaners that are supposed to, we need to kill the bacteria. And don't watch some of those documentaries where they put the, the world's best known, uh, chemical bathroom cleaner and vinegar was just sitting there right there with it. As far as killing the bacteria. It was amazing. They cleaned with olive oil. Oil will clean to some degree. They had essential oils. It's amazing what essential oils will kill. You start putting cinnamon and stuff and things like that. They had herbs, you know, some herbs will clean. They had citrus juice. They knew how to take their environment and clean with it. It says in 2 Samuel, David arose from the earth and he washed and anointed himself. He put olive oil on him. In the Bible, herbs like hyssop were often used. See, we've forgotten all of these things. We've forgotten how to boil hyssop and make a tincture out of it and mix it with water and shake it all up and spray it and clean with it. We forgot how to do these things. Our forefathers have forgotten. Who can argue with the Bible? So years ago, I'm talking many, many years ago before Y2K, I understood all of this and I said, we're going to go back to ways that you can clean and clean ourselves. But you can make a few mistakes if you don't watch. There's a big mistake I made when I saw it said sweet cane in the Bible and God says you didn't bring me any sweet cane. And I said, well, it sounds like to me cane sugar is good. It must be the refined sugar that's bad. So I got rid of all the refined sugar, but I kept the pure sugar cane in my house. And that was a big mistake. And I found out years later, I went back to the text and I realized that wasn't a cane that they were eating, that was an incense cane that they were burning for incense. And I realized the Bible never said that sweet cane was good talking about sugar. I've made other mistakes in regard to some of these shampoos. One of the mistakes I made is people said your natural oils will return soon. So just use soap on your hair instead of harsh chemical shampoos. And so you say, okay, we'll just start washing with soap. And after a while, your natural oils will return and everything will be great. But then things got bad and they got worse. My wife says, I don't think it's working. I said, keep trying, keep trying. And I say this very carefully, very carefully. You need to listen sometimes. You understand? We'll get on past that now, but let's just See, what we're prone to do, and there's a lot of it, and if you ladies could help us, man. If you don't overreact in other things, then that can trust us to believe you when you're telling us something's not working. Because sometimes we think you're just overreacting. You understand? Y'all understand? Y'all listening? Alright, you can smile, Abby. She's over there nodding her head. That's right, yeah. So, my house, it did not work. And we kept using the soap and kept using the soap. It got worse and worse and worse. Worse and worse and worse. It didn't work. I said, something's wrong. I said, how can it be wrong? That's what they used in the Bible. Now, number one, it doesn't say anywhere in the Bible they stuck soap on their hair. Did you did you see anywhere in all those scriptures that said they stuck soap on their hair? It didn't. So that's the first thing I got. Oh, it never says they put soap on their hair. But even if they did put soap on their hair, how often did they do it? See, sometimes you can find a little bit of extra information. It doesn't take you. It doesn't change what you've already found, but it just corrects it a little bit. Look at this. An uncommon history of common things. National Geographic Books, 2009. The problem is not so much to get. Rid of the dirt, but the sebum. And oil produced by glands in the skin. Soap leaves a dull film on the hair. So the early Egyptians came up with a clever solution. They were trying to figure out thousands of years ago how to wash your hair without it leaving a film and scum all in your hair. So what they would do was wash their hair with a mixture of citrus juice and a little soap. And I'm sure their soap was not as harsh as our soap. The citric acid cuts through the sebum. Others would mix soap with baking soda around the world. The resulting preparation has a high number of negatively charged ions, as do modern shampoo. So they were inventing the chemical structure of modern shampoos by their experimentation. And I don't know the exact formula, how they did this. But my point is, is they realized the problem. We have to get our hair clean. We're not going to go invent some crazy chemicals and burn our hair all up and give everybody cancer. We got shiny hair. Everybody has cancer and our fish are basically, you don't know if they're male or female, they got eyes all over the place. But who cares? Our hair's pretty. Does that make much sense? But they realize if you stick soap to hair, it pretty much leaves a gook and a gunk. And what are you going to do? Others report that ancients used water and citrus juice. Women all over the world, that's what they use. They use water mixed with citrus juice. I never put citrus juice on my hair. Read the back of your conditioner one time. Citric acid, so-and-so acid, so-and-so. What do you think you're sticking on your hair? So they use water and citrus juice. There are reports of Russians using some soap on their hair only to find out that their hard water caused a sticky scum to develop. So Russian women said, we cannot use soap upon our hair because we have hard water. And when you mix hard water with soap, it leaves a sticky film on your hair. So you know what they did before World War II? They discovered Rainwater. Rainwater is what kind of water? Soft water. And they found out that if they use rainwater and a little soap with a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar, all the big soap deposits that are in the hair, the rainwater washes it away. I happen to have the hardest water on the face of the earth. You go over and see my water that's coming out that Texas well, and you'll see in a second that Texas is known to be to have some of the hardest water in all the country. The minerals that are coming out of that water. I mean, you got to see what they do to my pipes, you got to see what they do to my bathtub. It's just amazing the hard water. So. When I was taking hard water, the hardest in the nation, mixing it with soap and trying to wash our hair, It didn't work. It didn't work. It didn't work. So many people use rainwater, historical encyclopedia of good looks, beauty and grooming, says many people wash their hair with the same kind of soap they use on their bodies. The soaps did clean the hair, but they often left it looking dull with the residue. So then you try to comb it all out and what happens? It breaks. Indians and others use yucca suds and other plants that have soapwort suds. And these probably did not leave the same residue. Chinese women used only scented water. They said we don't need anything but water that's scented with a few herbs. And that's what we wash our hair with. So this idea that you have to use soap to wash your hair, that's one big mistake that I made. The second big mistake I made was you have to watch not to use hard water mixed with soap to wash your hair. I made a big mistake there. And not only that. You say, how did our forefathers do it before they discovered all that? They've lost the old ways of the Indians and Bible days, but it was not yet the chemical age. How did they use soap to wash their hair? Well, let's look. Child's Day, 1912. Boys ought to wash their hair every week and girls every what? Two weeks. You will notice after washing your hair that it feels dry and fluffy and sometimes rather harsh just because the soap and hot water together have washed out the hair's natural oil. And this is why it's better not to wash the hair with soap and hot water less than once a week. The Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Education, 1918, about once in two weeks is sufficiently often for girls to wash their hair. So one of the ways they were mitigating this problem using soap was they were barely washing their hair. And they even told you, if you're a girl and you've got that long hair, don't you wash it but once every two weeks. And we've already seen another mistake I made is the water. One of the main problems is that not only does soap leave a scum in the hair, but it becomes a greater problem if you have hard water. Philadelphia Times, people have known this for centuries, 1887, don't bathe in hard water, soften it with a little borax. Expert cleaner of 1899 to make water soft, boil it. You'll see all the minerals falling down to the bottom of the pot. Boil it, add a little baking soda or put into the water you wish to soften a piece of chalk in a bucket or tub. So they use chalk, baking soda to soften their water. Womanhood in 1904. Most people know how highly injurious to the complexion is the use of hard water. Hard water is equally injurious to the hair as it is to the complexion. Well, that's all we have is hard water. So they use a little baking soda to soften the water. And folks said it even makes your food taste better. Janice Cox of Natural Beauty says if you have hard water, baking soda will soften it. Hard water makes cleaning products less effective. Black girl with long hair says, while black hair needs water to thrive, hard water can be a total breakage nightmare. The very thing that we depend on to take care of our hair and fight breakage can also be the very thing that slowly destroys it. Unfortunately, hard water is a common problem. Nearly 85% of homes have hard water coming through the taps. Hard water is water that is full of dissolved minerals. But isn't this good for us? Yes and no. Minerals are excellent inside the body. Inside, they're able to travel through the bloodstream and nourish your hair. But minerals deposited on the exterior of the hair can cause breakage, dryness. And not only black hair care, but in everybody's hair, then you add chlorine that's often added to hard water has negative effects. These minerals have a drying effect. They can start giving you dandruff. And then they go on to tell you that Texas has some of the hardest waters in the nation, so E. Howe says one of the simplest procedures for mitigating hard water is to add baking soda. Interesting. They said vinegar also softens water. There's people on various websites like NSU.com, homeschool family says this time I've definitely discovered a key to life without shampoo. It's all about the water. You know how some people say that their hair is soft and clean after using baking soda and vinegars, while others of us struggle. The effectiveness of baking soda hinges heavily upon whether you have hard or soft water. How to wash your hair with baking soda if you have hard water. And she goes on to give you her things that she's found of boiling the water. and mixing it with a little baking soda and using that as shampoo, followed up with apple cider vinegar. Then from around the world, people begin to write in and they say, it's worked for me too. This is a great topic. I went no shampoo a year ago. I had the exact same problem. I didn't even think about the water problem. My family was no shampoo for over a year and loved it, but we moved away and now we have a gooey, sticky, impossible to brush or comb yuck. And over and over, people said we finally broke down and quit using the homemade shampoo, began to use Jason's organics. But my face has been breaking out and my scalp itches. I wonder why. I want you to read the ingredients that's in that stuff. If you can pronounce it, I might give you a dollar. I didn't realize until that happened that it was shampoo causing me to break out and itch. Might be your asthma problem, too. It might be all kinds of problems coming from that stuff. So I'm going to boil some water, mix it up with baking soda, go right back to no shampoo. All over the Internet, you have people that give you the directions on how they simply change their water and they've been able to go back to older ways of doing things and get success. Here's somebody that uses distilled water because that's really what you're trying to get is distilled water, soft water. It costs less than a dollar a gallon at the grocery store. I mix that and they make a shampoo out of that. They use lime juice as a conditioner. And I hope this helps those struggling with the no shampoo method due to hard water. You know what? If this helps somebody avoid cancer. And still have beautiful hair, praise God. And I'm not telling you what to do. I'm trying to just get you to start doing some experimentation on your own. You men that are getting bored. Hey, having beautiful hair on your daughters and and your wife's a good thing. Amen. And I'm trying to share with you some of the mistakes I've made in my research. This stuff's not easy to get to the bottom of. And going back to the old ways is harder sometimes than you realize. And there's a lot of information that we don't know that they understood. And sometimes you got to discover this by trial and error. And. For example, look at farm life, 1900, some women never use soap on the face, the imported Castile olive soap is entirely unobjectable, though, when possible, only soft water should be used on the face. A beautiful head of hair is a woman's glory. And yet comparatively, comparatively few women take the care of the hair that they should. The ordinary methods of washing the hair are ruinous to its beauty. Washing the hair in soap and water alone should never be done. They knew that in the 1900s. If a woman would have nice glossy hair, let her first rub eggs all through it, then wash it out with olive oil, soap and soft water. What do they understand? Soft water. The woman beautiful of 1899, dark haired person should use a yolk of egg, borax and warm what? Rainwater. Because that's what? After shampooing, olive oil is used to follow the drying of the hair. I mean, you start getting the same stuff all over. Here's a website, being one of five girls in a family of seven. I am familiar with some of the above beauty treatments. My dad always kept a rain barrel outside and we only washed our faces and hair in the collected rainwater. My mother's rules. She must have known something that's been handed down generation after generation. She also taught us to apply the egg whites, not the yolk, to our hair once a month, rub them into the scalp and rinse, of course, with what? Rainwater. If it looked like our hair was becoming a little too oily, she would have us rinse in a solution of vinegar and water. Facial treatments included washing with buttermilk. Job mentions washing of the eyes with milk. So take these ideas. Improve upon them. Experiment with them. But know when something's not working. But be honest about it not working. What I'm wanting you to see today is you don't have to be a slave to chemicals. And this is what I'm trying to get through to people. With whatever energy you have left, I'm done. But I want you to just listen for a second. They would like you to believe that there was no such a thing as long, glorious, pretty hair. until the 1940s when they invented chemicals. Did you really believe that? Can you honestly sit here before me and say for 6,000 years, women didn't know how to have pretty hair until they invented chemical shampoo and chemical detergent? I just can't believe that. The Bible speaks in Song of Solomon of the woman walking down a hill and it looked like a flock of goats. Her hair was so long and glorious. How did she keep that clean? I don't think we have to be a slave to chemicals. And I have a lot of answers, but I don't have all the answers on how to escape this chemical generation. But I'm learning more and more every day of my life. And I pray you're learning. And if we all get together and learn, we can escape as much as we can this chemical world out here. And I don't think God's happy about manipulating His nature and putting everything and isolating it and creating this toxic soup. And I'm sick of people getting cancer and dying. You might roll your eyes and get a little upset at some of this stuff, but I'd rather you get mad at me now than go off and get cancer and get mad at God. Do you understand that? So how did these women do that? I'd say if I had to guess, and I checked Israel, don't just say, well, they always had soft water in Israel. People have written articles that said you can't find soft water in Israel, at least now. Everywhere the water is hard. Well, how in the world? You say, well, all Jews had nice, Jewish women had nice. Some of them have thin hair. There's all types of hair types and each one of them has a glory. My first guess was this Jewish women, In the Bible days, I don't think they use soap on their hair. There's no record that they ever put soap on their hair. So what did they use? Maybe hyssop? David said, purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. I shall be clean. That's a picture of the Lord cleansing us by his blood. But I think David's saying, you know, your body can get cleaned by hyssop. Do you think David was just foolish or do you think He knew that Hissop will clean you. He knew Hissop will clean you. Make your shampoo out of Hissop, make a cleanser out of Hissop. And you know what I think they did? And I close with this. I think they use rainwater to clean their hair with. I think they knew how to collect the rainwater. And I think they said, that's what I use to wash my hair with. We'll drink the spring water. But I believe they drank the spring water and washed in the soft water. Let me give you just a couple of Bible verses, Job chapter nine, if I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean, Job's trying to give you the most the cleanest thing that he could possibly do. And he says, one of the cleanest things you could ever do is wash yourself with snow water. I think these ladies gathered the snow when it melted, collected that water, and I believe they washed their hair in snow water. You know what snow water is? Some of the softest water you can ever find. Soft water. Oh, but wait a second. Exodus 2, the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself in the well. She came down to wash her hair in the spring. You know what it says? Springs are hard water. Wells are normally hard water. They drank the well water. They drank the minerals on the inside of their body. They drank the spring. But lakes and rivers are soft water. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself where? At the river. Why did she use a spring? You get the point? If you think this was just about how to wash your hair, you missed the point. And I pray God to open your eyes to what the sermon was really about. You go back and rewind the tape. Listen again. I had more to say than just how to make your own homemade shampoo. OK. So don't put it out on the Internet. Oh, see what this pastor did. You know, last time he taught on shoes. Now he's teaching on shampoo. Well, if you can't understand, I'll pray for you that the Lord will get you to see and open your eyes. Dear Father, thank you for the folks today, their patience. Thank you for your goodness. Let us escape this chemical age, Father. Show us step by step. How to save ourselves from asthma and anemia and cancers and all of these headaches and things that people are getting. Help us be wise. Give us the courage to be different. To be creative. To use the ancient wisdom. And reject that which is unbiblical and wrong. Please give us healing. Give us our glory back, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen.