Ecclesiastes 7, chapter 7, verse 23. Today I'm going to preach to you about hippie love culture abounding. Hippie love culture abounds. Solomon says, all this I have proved by wisdom. I said I will be wise, but it was far from me. that which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out? I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness. Now when you first read this, It can almost appear that this is a justification for a Gnostic, hippie type of knowledge. When Solomon says that to know the wickedness of folly, he's not saying that he has to go experience homosexuality, God forbid, to understand that that is wrong. Nor is he saying that this uncertainty that he found means that we can't be certain of anything. So what I want to preach to you today about is the fact that hippie love culture, the values of the hippie movement in the 1960s, a profound change came to the world in the 1960s. The me generation. And many say today we are in the me, me, me generation. And that is my point. That some of the foundational principles of the counterculture, the hippie generation, are alive and well with us today in Christian churches. And it's very dangerous. A very, very important sermon today. Dear Father, we do pray You will bless the preaching of Thy Word, bless the ground that I preach upon, Father. Let there be changes made. Let there be discernment in love and how we act, that we end up not as hippies and rebels, Gnostics, New Agers. In the name of the Lord Jesus, amen. Now there's a right way to be wise. It's found first of all in the inspired Holy Bible. If you want to be wise, you need to read the Bible. If you want to be wise, read the Bible. That is where wisdom is found. The mouth of God gives wisdom. Then we're told in the Bible, that wisdom is comprehended through studying the Scriptures, not just reading, studying the Bible. We're told that wisdom is through the fear of God, that you need the fear of the Lord. It's the beginning or foundation of wisdom. Then the Bible tells you through the rod and reproof you get wisdom. By responding to discipline, by having a loving parent rebuke you, discipline you. It makes you wise. It really does. It makes you a wise person. We're told that obedience makes us wise. We're told that respect for authority makes us wise. We're told that humility helps us to be wise. We're told that if you're willing to grow in maturity, that makes you wise. All of these things and more are diametrically opposed to the way the world and the God of this world tells you to seek wisdom. Basically, it tells you to stay away from the Bible, that it's not through authority, that it's not through rod and reprove. It's through toleration. It's not through humility. It's through pride and loving yourself. It's through being a baby and being immature about everything. So you have two paths to wisdom. One will give you the wisdom of this world and Satan, and the other, the wisdom of God. Now we know the serpent. We know what type of wisdom he's going to tempt Eve to try to obtain. Let's read it in Genesis 3. We're not ignorant of his devices. We have it right here in Genesis chapter 3. Ah, do something experiential here. Then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And notice when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. Now the serpent certainly lied, but it was more of a trick. In one sense, she did have her eyes open because she put herself in the place of God. And she decided, I will decide what's right and wrong. Don't ever put yourself in the place of God. Never usurp God's role in defining morality. And she did, in one sense, know evil. She experienced it. She became evil. But this is a wisdom that you're told to avoid. God does not want you to know evil by becoming evil. 1 Corinthians 14 says, Brethren, be not children in understanding, how be it in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. Don't get out here and say, oh, well, I want to experience things. I've got to know for myself. No, don't be foolish. Don't be a fool. Know from the Bible. Know from other people and their experience. Don't go out here and be a fool. Romans 16, I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil. He doesn't mean that he does not want you to be discerning. He wants your love to abound more and more with judgment and knowledge. He wants us to prove all things and be wise. But when He says simple concerning evil, He means He wants you to not experience evil. like the world is experiencing, like the devil wants you to experience, like Eve experienced evil. Oh, her eyes were opened, all right. She knew what evil was like, because she became evil. She became a rebel. There are some people that have practiced evil, and they become very subtle, like the serpent, their father. It says in 2 Samuel 13, but Amnon had a friend. You better watch your friends. But Amnon had a friend. You better choose your friends wisely. But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very subtle man. Before you know it, Amnon was raping his half-sister because of this wicked friend. Eve did not become wise in a godly way. unless she later learned from her sin and punishment. Satan deceived her in becoming a fool. Listen to me. The generation of the hippies were tempted by Satan and by Satan's servants to experience knowledge. Go be experienced. Learn wisdom. Turn to the inner self. Turn to your inner heart. Turn to drugs. Turn to sin. Fornication. You'll be wise. Smoke pot, smoke marijuana, take acid. Take drugs. Live like a whore. You'll be experienced. No. No. Eve became a fool. Eve became a fool. Jeremiah 4, for my people is foolish. They have not known me. They are soddish. That means stupid children. They have none understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. God does not want you wise to do evil in this way. What the world calls knowledge, God calls foolishness. So you can expect the world to turn everything upside down, everything backwards. What God says a man should be, He says a woman should be that. What God says a woman should be, the devil says man should be that. What God says is evil, Satan says is good. And vice versa. God says don't do this, you'll be a fool. Satan says do this and you'll be wise, you'll be experienced. You better get it while you can. Certain generations in history have been exceedingly foolish. A generation that lacks the things that bring wisdom bring you to this place. In the 1950s, there was a revival in some ways. Women went back home from the workplace. But at the same time, there was also a birth of rock and roll. Rock and roll was simply pornographic blues brought into the white suburbs by lazy children, given, fed to lazy children, fed to suburban middle-class kids. They're listening to pornographic blues. There was the rise in the 1950s of the beat generation. Beatniks, they were called. Psychologists began to replace the pastor. People left the Bible for Dr. Spock and for psychology. And he said, don't spank your children. It'll hinder their growth. Let the toddler throw a fit. You don't want to delay their maturity. A new generation began to be raised on Hollywood and comic books. What type of teenagers and young adults do you think this generation is going to become? They lack all of the principles of wisdom. When the crop came in and they began to see the harvest that they were reaping, by the late sixties some psychologist after witnessing the rise of the me generation, began to say, you were spocked when you should have been spanked. And even the psychologists, even the humanistic psychologists, some of them said, spank them, spank them, we were wrong. It did not work. A generation arose in the 60s without the foundations of wisdom. They did not have the Bible. They were not disciplined. They were not mature. They were not responsible. They were not able to take responsibility for things. They had not humility. The serpent was ready to pray. And he began as the Pied Piper to lead many in the 1960s to be as gods and find wisdom by turning within. You'll find it in your heart, the serpent said. You'll find it in the forbidden tree. Just take this fruit, this new drug, LSD, acid, just take it and hallucinate. Take these magic mushrooms. Take this marijuana plant that the Indians used to become devil possessed. Take this plant and begin to smoke it and hallucinate. You'll find knowledge. You'll see everything in a different way. And they began to follow the devil. They began to follow their rock and roll leaders and began to get into meditation and yoga and eastern mysticism. The thing that had so cursed India. They wanted to bring over here and curse us. So they began to chant with the Hare Krishnas. They began to play the bongos like the Indians and the drums and to lose their self in a chant or a trance. They began to do drugs. Everything was about experience. Don't knock it till you try it, they said. Have you tried it? You got to be experienced. You're so tight. You need to loosen up. Go with the flow, they said. Get out from under your restrictions and your authority. It's exactly what the devil said to Eve, or implied. He said, you're being held back by your father. You need to break free, what all the Hollywood movies are pretty much saying. There's no right and wrong, said Satan and the leaders he rose up in the 60's. Truth and morality are relative. Each person must decide for himself. What's right for you is not right for me. It's modern college. You go to a modern college at a university, and you're going to be told this in every classroom, whether it's architecture, political science, English. No matter what your major is, you're going to have the teacher get up and say, there is no truth. Truth is not absolute. Truth is relative. And no matter what you learn, you're going to leave college with this hammered into your heart, your brain. Turn off your mind, they said. Jimi Hendrix, a rock guitar player, arose, called himself the voodoo child. His question was, are you experienced? Which means, do you have your eyes open? As the devil said to Eve, that third eye, that's on your dollar bill, that goes back to Egyptian hermeticism, occultism. Open your eyes! Be experienced! You'll begin to see reality in a different way. You have your standards that your parents taught you, but if you will just do LSD one time, it'll change your whole view of everything. Well, after studying and doing many tests, many found out it really didn't change their view about a lot, but it did change their view about one thing. They began to live differently. It changed their view of truth. Things became relative. The Hendrix Song in 1967. He says, we'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sun rise from the bottom of the sea. See, we're talking contradictions here. That's the same in Buddhism, Hinduism. You have these contradictions that kind of blow your mind, you know. Are you experienced? He asks. Have you ever been experienced? This was the cry of a whole generation. Or at least they wanted it to be. We are now at what's called the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Woodstock was a big outdoor concert in New York in 1969. Jimi Hendrix played there with a lot of other bands. It was a big event where they camped out, did drugs. More people turned out than they expected. So it was really a time where people had nowhere to use the bathroom and there was mud everywhere. In many ways it was a horrible experience. But in some ways it pictured their ideal of everybody getting together and listening to music and protesting authority. So they're going to have a great 50th anniversary of Woodstock. They were going to headline with Miley Cyrus and Beyonce. How in the world does that relate? But I guess it pretty much does. I mean, I guess that's the voice of this generation. Wow. Vox newspaper says, Woodstock was a beautiful, idealistic mess. The Woodstock generation was the letdown. See, you get a whole bunch of people together and say, why don't we just all live together? Wouldn't that just be great? Everybody just sit around and smoke pot and do whatever we want. Isn't that great? Well, who's going to feed you? After a while, you've got to eat, right? Somebody's got to work. That's why we say it's idealistic, the idea you can just sit around and smoke pot all day. And I guess they want the government. They want the government to actually make that possible, that you just sit around and smoke pot all day. Pot being marijuana. So the first thing I want you to understand about the 1960s counterculture, hippie revolution, it was a rejection of biblical Christianity. Next time you want to identify with that culture, understand it was a rejection of everything God had given us to do in the Bible. You say, I like the hippie culture. Listen, there were some degree of a form of godliness. Everything, no matter what it is, is going to have a little bit of something in it that attracts you. I'll discuss that here in a second. But I'm looking at not so much the hippies themselves, but the satanic leaders and communist leaders that used a bunch of foolish children foolish young adults to do their will and destroy this country. And they're alive and well today in the left and the Democratic Party and much of the Republican Party. It's a rejection of the basic foundations of society. It's a rejection of traditional morality. It's a rejection of ordained authority, beginning with God all the way down to fathers. The Beatles, who came about in the early 60s. By the mid-60s, they led the way to replace Christianity with Eastern mysticism, to turn within by drugs and mindless meditation. They had a big concert in 1967 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, called the Human Be-In. The hippie leaders led the whole crowd in chanting Aum, O-M, which is what the Hindus used to silence their mind to become devil-possessed. So you got a whole crowd of young people. They don't even know what they're doing. They said, oh, it's beautiful, it's beautiful. You're practicing devilish occultism. What do you think is going to come out of that? In the Salem witch trials, right before, they were getting into folk magic. The girls that we know ended up being devil-possessed and pointing out many of the Christians in town and calling them witches. That horrible thing, as many observers later in history looked back and said, we better not ever mess with occultism again. Every time you mess with occultism, something bad happens, something horrible. There was a revival of occultism in the 1920s in Germany. It led to Nazism and the horrible bloodshed of Hitler. And I could go on and on. Although today, some of the outward forms of the hippie revolution may be changed. The basic idea of there being no right and wrong, and that knowledge is found through subjective experience, and that drugs bring enlightenment, and that yoga is cool, all of that is still with us today like you would not believe. In fact, I would say more so than even in the 1960s. In other words, what a few hippies embraced ended up saturating America. and becoming mainstream. I call your attention to 2 Timothy 3, in the last days men shall be lovers of their own selves, disobedient to parents themselves, me generation, self love. He goes on to say they will not endure sound doctrine. He says in 1 Timothy that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to doctrines of devils, seducing spirits. They're going to forbid to marry. The feminists say marriage is wrong, it's slavery for a woman. You must be free from marriage and you can't eat meat. Even the clean animals that God has ordained for food, you can't eat them. You must be a vegetarian. All of that began to abound. It's just the old New Age. The same ideas were put forth by the seances of the 1800s and the witch occult feminists. This vegetarianism for religious purposes to bring you enlightenment. This forbidding to marry and practice free love, fornicating with everybody. It brings disease, and that's exactly what it brought in the 60s. And it brought abortion in the 70s. This free love, this promiscuity brought disease, it brought AIDS, and it brought homosexuality, and it brought the death of millions of little babies. The book of Jude said in the last days they will despise government. They will not be afraid to speak evil of dignities, such as fathers, pastors. But it said they'll have a form of godliness. See, what the Bible is saying is the hippie culture is going to spread around the world and in your churches you will have people that are hippies. I don't mean just back to nature people that kind of tend away from materialism. I'm talking about the very foundations that the devil gave to Eve. They will really be eastern mystics. A satanic view of love with satanic values. A satanic pursuit of wisdom that is not wisdom. What you'll find is many of the outsiders that are attracted to the hippie style of life are often people who not only despise authority, but can't really take it. They're very overly sensitive, emotional people that do not like to be told what to do. And they get attracted to that anti-authority hippie movement. I've seen it with my own eyes. Not only does the hippie movement encourage and promote it, but people are already many times rebellious when they get caught up into that whole thing. Paul wanted your love to abound in knowledge and judgment, but they end up hating authority, hating reproof, so they end up without wisdom. And they end up with a love that is a selfish love. It's that secret love that the Bible talks about. The Bible says open rebuke is better than secret love. And you ought not hate your brother, but you better rebuke him and not suffer sin upon him. They don't understand that. The only thing they rebuke is anybody that tells them not to do the drugs and the fornication and the rebellion and the adultery. There's a documentary called The Hippie Temptation. It was put out in 1967. Very, very enlightening evaluation. Please, please, listen to this. The documentary says, back in the 60s, the word love is used by them a lot. Isn't this a fake kind of love? We asked Dr. Duke Fisher of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Now, already, we're messed up in the 60s. They didn't say we asked Pastor So-and-so. We asked Pastor Dr. Greg Dixon. They didn't say that. They could have. But no, everybody wants to hear what the psychologist has to say. Nevertheless, in this case, he did have a pretty good evaluation of things. He says, the primary reason that you hear so much talk about love, love sessions, love groups, love ins, is because many of the acid users have the most difficulty with love. They talk about loving humanity in general, but they have a great deal of difficulty loving one other person, one certain thing that will in turn make certain demands on them. Now you think about this. This is profound. This is profound. You don't need some psychology to blind your eyes. This is profound. This hippie love today Many of these people that go around and talk about love are the most unloving people. They talk about love in the abstract. But if you ever test them in regard to love, well, let's see your loyalty. Let's see your faithfulness. Let's see whether you betray somebody. Let's see how you love when it doesn't go your way, when you don't get your way. Let's see how you love your parents. Let's see how you love your husband, love your wife. Let's see how you love your pastor and your church. Let's see how you love anybody that tells you something contrary to what your flesh wants to do. You'll find these people don't have love at all. They will hate you. They will despise you. They will betray you. But yet they talk about love, love, love. You gotta watch out. If somebody comes to you talking love, love, love, love, love, they might be the most hateful people you've ever met. You better watch out for them. He goes on to say the kind of love they have is a very narcissistic kind of love, very selfish. Love for love's sake! But there's very little real love. It's a facade that can't last. In the name of love, there is a great deal of hostility, even. The numbness caused by drugs makes them extremely self-righteous. And he goes on and gives examples of things he witnessed, a hippie girl trying to give a flower to somebody, a policeman. And the policeman said, I don't want it. And she became very hostile with him. You will accept my love. You will accept my view of love. You will accept my method of love, my form of love. or we will reject you, we will be very upset. What's behind all of this? The deceived young people, they're not your enemy. Satan is your enemy. The communists that used all of this and helped Bring it to pass. They are your enemy. The people that want to destroy America and make a one world government, and they use the hippie revolution and the feminist revolution to do it, all for one thing, to destroy the family. What was Satan, the serpent, telling Eve? Be experienced. You'll never know until you break through from the confinements. God is holding you back. You've got to break free. A child gets 18, 19 years old, the devil begins to hit him and say, you've got to break free. You've got to be experienced. You better watch what you experience. You better watch what you break free from, or you might end up like the prodigal. Regardless of the servants that the devil uses, the Marxist and one-worlders and such like, there's something else you need to know. This all has an occult foundation. You'll never understand what happened in the 60s unless you understand the religious occultism, the spiritual occultism behind it all. As far as the Marxist-Communist foundations of the 1960s. You should read David Noble's 1966 book, Rhythm, Riots, and Revolution. And then his later book, The Marxist Minstrels. And he shows the outright communism embraced by these folk singers and 1960s hippies. their leaders. See, they were being led to destroy the Constitution so they can bring communism. That's why they were against the Vietnam War. Some of them just were against violence because they were pacifists. But you must understand at the heart of this whole thing was a hatred for anything that is against communism. No matter what you believe about Vietnam and our involvement and not finishing or whatever it is, the one thing here that we need to understand is this hippies movement was an eastern mystical occult communist movement. Many people miss this Marxist plot to destroy the family. but even more miss the occult foundation. They called it the dawning of the age of Aquarius. That we are leaving this Pisces age and we're moving into this age of Aquarius which is feminine, love of mother earth. When the feminine values begin to take of tolerance and compassion and gentleness and all the things that relate to motherhood when a baby is young, that's what we are. We're all just these mothers, you know, and we just need to love everybody in that way. Well, that's so blind because there's more to love than just nursing a child. There comes a time when you need to wean the child. There comes a time when you need to discipline the child. There comes a time when you need to charge them and command them and help them grow up. You can read Marilyn Ferguson's 1980 book, The Aquarian Conspiracy, if you want to see how everything from corporations to organizations to Marxists and Communists, everybody, began to work together to bring this great revolution in the 1960s, as the musical hair blasphemously showed. If you want to see the occult foundations of it all, you must understand that Led Zeppelin, the lead guitarist, handed out satanic Bibles at his concerts. This is what led to my salvation. As I began to read that, I began to understand that if I'm about to go national, if I'm about to get a record contract, I don't have anything to say. I felt very empty. The same thing happened to many others about that time. I realized that in some way, no matter what, I'm going to be a leader. And if he's handing out the satanic Bible, what am I going to hand out? What do I have to say? And that led to my search and awakening. It was a satanic foundation. Groups began to arise. Black Sabbath. Mocking God. Aleister Crowley, the witch who called himself the Beast of Revelation, the pedophile witch, satanic leader. The Beatles put his picture on their album. I could go on and on showing the satanic foundations of the 60s. Led Zeppelin, the whole idea is you have a lead balloon, very opposite. Opposites attract, yin and yang. The idea is we are merging male and female together. Why? Because they believe that in the book of Genesis, if you look at the occult interpretation of Genesis, they believe God was androgynous and male and female were not separated. That God made man perfect and he was an androgynous being. They believe the fall is what divided into male and female. And if we want to get perfect, we've got to go back to the Garden of Eden and we've got to become androgynous. So you have Robert Plant, the lead singer, singing like a girl and sometimes singing like a man. And sometimes he has masculine power, but sometimes he's a girl. He's wearing women's clothes. He's got long hair. He's singing like a girl. As D. Snyder said, it's androgyny, it's Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, all of it is just androgyny. The mixing, it's getting back to Genesis, what they believe is Genesis. No, that's not how God made, God in the beginning made them male and female, that's what our Lord said. But the occultic and the apocryphal sayings of Jesus. They say, oh no, the kingdom of God will come when you women renounce the dress of your sex and you begin to live like men and act like men and you become men. When you become men, the wonderful kingdom of God will come. We'll be in paradise. So, the Satanists believe that we've got to get back to androgyny. Men have to become women and women have to become men. Opposites must be merged together. Lead, zeppelin, guns, roses, it must all come together. This occultism like drugs and eastern mysticism and the experiential knowledge of evil is going on today. Androgyny abounds like never before. They were dreaming about such a day in the 60s. Now you've got public libraries where you've got transvestites reading stories to little children. You've got businesses allowing men to dress as women. In fact, they say in some places it's against the law. Federal law, 666, section 666 says you cannot discriminate against. If he says he's a woman, you gotta say he's a woman. What I'm trying to tell you is that the hippie foundations are alive and well today, and they're in your churches. And people are embracing it, and they don't even know what they're embracing. They think it's cool. Do you know how many millions that communists killed? Do you know how many millions this free love fornication from the hippie movement killed in abortion? Do you know how many Stalin put to death and the communist leaders of China? Do you know how many millions they put to death? And you're gonna play around with this stuff like it's cute and cool? Satanism is not cool and cute. The people that really know what's going on, the true Satanists, are laughing. But they know it's all preparing for their leader, the Antichrist. Time Magazine in 1967 had an article called, Youth the Hippies. They say historian Arnold Toynbee describes them as a red warning light for the American way of life. Yes, it was a red warning light. People should have woke up. There was some type of revival in the 70s among fundamentalists, but, or shall we say Christians began to, in some ways, wake up. But it all fizzled out into charismatic evangelicalism, you know. Everybody went back to love. A false view of love. If you leave a fundamentalist church, the first reason they're going to say is, we've got to get back to love. Toleration. I have friends that are homosexual. We've got to get back to embracing everybody. They're little hippies is what they are. Little rebels. Little hippie rebels. Who know not what they're doing. Hippies preach altruism and mysticism. A cult whose mystique, that's why they say, just follow your heart. Let the Holy Spirit guide you in your heart. Get away from the Bible, you know. A cult whose mystique derives essentially from the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. The hallucinogens promise Those who take the trip, a magic carpet escape from reality. The cult is a growing phenomenon. In San Francisco, there was serious danger of epidemics and infectious hepatitis from needles exchanged in shooting amphetamines and venereal disease, already up six times from the city's 1964 rate. The hippies hope to generate an entirely new society. The hippie uses drugs, first for kicks, and then sometimes as a kind of religious sacrament. Anti-intellectual, distrustful of logic. Say, you've got to silence your mind. The devil always comes. Alistair Crowley said, the mind is the great enemy. In 1966, the Church of Satan was formed. It pretty much just said, all of this stuff you're doing, living like an animal, it's just satanic. It's all an anti-intellectual device. That's all the satanic ritual is. Once unleashed, most hippies first become insatiable hedonists, smoking and eating whatever can turn them on in a hurry. Well, there's a lot of hippies today in Baptist churches. And, of course, fornication. The primary quality in common was a history of unhappy, and people say, you know what? You're like a hippie. You're into getting back to nature and eating organic. No, no, no, you're like a hippie. You just stick whatever in your mouth that pleases you. The primary quality in common was a history of unhappy family life. All of the acid heads were loners and losers with few friends and few accomplishments before they dropped out. If there were a hippie code, it would include these flexible guidelines. First, do your own thing. Remember Lister Crowley said, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. In other words, try to be shocking. The key ethical element in the hippie movement is love. Central to the drug scene is marijuana. If grass is the staple of hippiedom, then LSD is the caviar. Now, let's discuss for just a moment some good things that were in the air that some of the hippies embraced. When the Summer of Love finally ended, thousands of hippies left San Francisco. They said it became too commercialized. And many of them headed back to the land. Many of them formed communes and began to form off-grid communities and go back to gardening and that type of thing. At age 13, I hung out every weekend with 19-year-olds. This was in South Carolina. They didn't wear shoes. They were dressed in leather. Their older brothers and sisters would have been the real hippies of 1969. At 13 years old, this is who I hung out with. Nobody around me was my age. Every weekend, these 19-year-old hippies took me, and I played music with them. They would go down to the river, play guitar. They would do acid and things. I wouldn't do that. But praise God, he preserved me somehow or another. But if there's one thing I know, I know what a Southern hippie is. I came back to school and all the children in my whole school, hundreds, nobody had long hair anymore. But I did. So I know what it's like to walk around wrestlers and jocks and preps and be the one with long hair. Now there were freaks, which were really just hippies without long hair. They'd begun to cut their hair, even the freaks, which were marijuana smokers. I was attracted to the anti-materialism, which is why a lot of people become freaks. If you don't have a lot of money and you go to one of the richest schools in your state, there's definitely a class distinction. And when you can't afford the Izod tennis shoes, when you don't have the fancy car, when you don't have the fancy clothes, it's easy to say all these people are judgmental and snobs. And so I can be accepted with holes in my blue jeans and a rock and roll t-shirt and walk around barefooted, and I'm accepted. They accept everybody. It's almost a protest against the materialism. So it's very attractive. When I began to go to summer camp, to an equestrian camp, my camp counselor was very good with horses. He called himself Nature Boy, and he had long hair. And I began to associate the hippie movement with country living and back to nature and the opposite of materialism, riding bareback on my horse in the pastures. I began to be attracted toward that. And of course, the music kept me immersed in that culture. What I found was this. When people sit around and smoke pot and talk about how stuck up and snobbish the rich are and how we're so much better because we have toleration and love, do you know Some of the most judgmental people were the hippies, the freaks I was with. Because if you ever meet some of those people, because I played guitar, sometimes they would come and befriend me. Some of the richest kids in the school. And I'd be ashamed of myself because I'd end up saying, you know what, these are really nice folks. They're not snobbish. I'm not saying that no rich people are ever snobbish, but I'm just saying that the hippies were even wrong about the people that they were judging. It's very much today when people become hippies, so to speak, and leave their churches. They leave their fundamental churches with standards, and they say, oh, they're just judgmental. They're so mean. They're Pharisee. No, you're the Pharisee. You're the one being judgmental. Just because there are some people that are harsh or severe or lacking love, speaking the truth without love, doesn't mean that everybody is like that. And you ought to not be so judgmental about some people have money because they worked hard to have it. Some people have standards to judge everybody, like a lot of these hippies and freaks do. How is that toleration? I had no idea that having long hair, I should have, but I had no idea that it was associated with androgyny. I had no idea of the occultism involved in what I was doing. When my eyes began to open up, When I was at a party somewhere and they put on a video of Metallica and Slayer and they stood up and said, we all await the coming of Antichrist, I turned around. I said, what did they just say? What? As I said before, I began to hand out flyers for our band to a local club. And we advertised, no homosexual music here, come listen to our Rock and roll, metal, whatever it was. And some of the leaders of the club came to me and says, hey, we're all into homosexuality. I said, what? So basically, I began to realize, you know what, the long black train that I'm on, you know where it's headed? It's headed toward homosexuality, or at least embracing homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle, which is what the next generation did with Nirvana and et cetera. It's a cultism, embracing black magic, white magic, whatever you want to call it. I said, it's not for me. I'm off this train. I had no idea that this is what this whole thing was about. Just like many of these naive Christians don't even know what train they're on. You don't know what spirit you are of. In August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Festival took place in Beth-El, New York. Over 500,000 people arrived. Joni Mitchell was not able to be there, but she was a leader of that hippie world at the time, one of the leaders in her songwriting. She looked at it from the outside on TV, and so she wrote this little song about it. to try to capture the spirit of the hippie Woodstock revolution. She says, I came upon a child of God. He was walking along the road, you know, calling these hippies children of God. And this he told me, I'm going on down to Yeager's farm. We are stardust. We are golden. Hey, that's long before Carl Sagan. They believe we all came from stars, you know. That's another occult teaching that the scientists are embracing today. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. She doesn't mean just get back to country living. She means we've got to go back to the garden, to peace, to paradise, to androgyny. Remember, they believe it the fall. That's when it became male and female. By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong. We are stardust, billion-year-old carbon. However, Joni Mitchell became disillusioned with her hippie friends pretty quick. And she got up and tried to sing a song to them. One of her hippie yoga friends jumped up on the stage and started playing his drums while she's trying to play. And so she whispered to him, no, sit down. You're not even playing in time. And he continued to play and continued to play and messed up her music. So finally, the hippie got up and took her mic away and began to say some type of hallucinogenic nonsense. And so the stage crew had to come and shoo him off stage. And everybody booed her. In other words, you've got to just let people interrupt you. You've got to let people just mess up your show. And she got mad. And she started telling everybody, how is this love, so to speak? How is all of this? And that's what the hippies are all about. Hey, you've got to love me. You've got to let me do whatever I want. You've got to let me talk when I want to talk. You've got to tolerate me no matter what, even if I mess up your life, even if I don't clean up anything, even if I live off you and don't pay my parents anything. I need to be embraced. You don't understand me. The parents said, no, I don't understand somebody that's lazy. No, I don't. Or maybe I do understand you. Go get a job. She became very disillusioned. She would later say, I wasn't really a hippie at all. I was always looking at it for its upsides and downsides, balancing it and thinking, here's the beauty of it, and here's the exploitive quality of it, and here's the silliness of it. I can never buy into it totally as an orthodoxy. She said, out of it came this liberated, spoiled, selfish generation into the costume ball of free love. Free, free, free, free, free. We're so free. And Woodstock was the culmination of it. But I was not a part of that. Even Pete Townsend, who wrote, I believe, the lyrics, my generation, my generation, got disgusted at Woodstock. The Guardian. In 2017, says, golden days, 50 years on from the summer of love. LSD guru, Timothy Leary. I did a college paper about Timothy Leary. Stood up and told the youth of America to turn on, tune in, and drop out. See, he was the intellectual leader of these young people. If you were to take a walk through Golden Gate Park that summer, you'd see hundreds of people just sitting on the grass talking to each other, says the wife of Jerry Garcia. Well, you don't see that much today. In the me, me, me generation, they're sitting around talking to one another in the park. In the me, me, me generation, they're looking at themselves so they can post another selfie on Facebook. The whole scene had to do with a breakdown of traditional values. It was about trying to build a new society, says William Hedgepeth, journalist of Look Magazine. I'm glad he admitted that. A breakdown of traditional values. That's exactly right. Do you want to turn everything on its head and live like they did in Paris at the end of the 19th century? That's what we did. We turned things upside down, says Gray Slick, lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. Yes, you did. Thank you for admitting it. LSD appeared. It brought us out of the dark ages. It cured the 1950s. People came from all over the world to become experienced. Our beautiful scene did turn into a zoo, says Stanley Maus, graphic artist. All of this is my point. Where does being experienced finally end? Where does do your own thing end? How do you put restrictions on it and stop it? If they say, I'm going to do my own thing and get venereal disease and be an adulteress and be into free love, I'm going to do my own thing and abuse my body and abuse my mind and brain with drugs. I'm going to do my own thing and not take a bath and dress androgynously. I'm going to do my own thing and not work. Okay? How do you stop the next person from saying, you know what? We experimented with fornication. Wow, I'm experienced. Let's experiment with homosexuality. Or let's go kill somebody. You know what a lot of young people today in the news are doing? It seems like every few months I read another article about some teenagers say, what would it feel like to kill somebody? Have you ever done it? How do you tell those people? that that's wrong. What if somebody says, I want to feel what suicide is like? How do you tell them that's wrong? How do you tell them pedophilia is wrong? No, they say be experienced, do what you want, do what thou wilt. So finally, right here in 1969, a bunch of hippies got together, led by Charles Manson, and they said, let's do drugs and be experienced. Let's go kill somebody. They're a bunch of rich people snobs anyway. Let's go see what it feels like. And suddenly all of America stopped. And they said, okay, there's the fruit of the hippies. There it is right there. Charles Manson. In fact, people today say Charles Manson pretty much ended the 60s. It was this idealistic dream of we can all live selfishly, we can do whatever we want. And then it manifested itself in Charles Manson. And then a Stones concert. Not long after, some people got killed by the Hells Angels, I believe. It put a downer on the whole hippies idea. And then, of course, AIDS hit the world. Wow. I lived through it. I know what fear it put upon everybody. Everywhere I went, people were scared to death because it jumped from homosexuals to heterosexuals. In fact, my friend's older brother, who was never a sodomite, he died of AIDS because he was messing around. It scared the death out of a whole generation. It put religion in a lot of people. See, God starts bringing curses upon things and you start seeing the fruit. I tell you what, you'll get religion real quick. The magazine, The Conversation, Nicholas Champion, 2017, says, in the summer of 1967, the centerpiece of the 60s still looms large over popular culture and social mores today. He's saying, hey, it's still here. The very foundation of it is with us today. He's right, and that's my point of my sermon today. 50 years after Woodstock, I'm here to tell you, the occult foundations are still with you today, and worse, they're in your churches. They're in your churches. Flowing colors of psychedelic art. And let me say one thing about that. They criticized the hippies for being naked. But most hippie girls wore far more clothes than your average Christian girl in churches today. Not so much in this church. But in most churches today, the hippies could teach modern Christian girls something about modesty. Boy, that's sad. That is sad. They could also teach them something about long hair on girls. At least they had some hair. At least they had flowers in their hair. At least they looked feminine. The problem is the men had long hair and flowers in their hair too. A belief that love was the solution to all problems. Hippie culture set out to transform the world by rejecting every social, political, economic, and aesthetic feature of mainstream western society. Please understand that that society, much of it was built on the foundation of a King James Bible. So when you reject it and turn it upside down, you're turning God's truth upside down and backwards. You better figure that out when you get attracted to the hippie world. This new Garden of Eden was destroyed progressively by the sheer numbers of teenagers. Disillusion set in. The twin shock of the Manson murders of 1969 and the brutal killing by the Hell's Angels of an audience member at the Rolling Stones concert provided the epitaph to an era. At the time, you had political Marxists, which really weren't hippies. Then you had those that just wanted to find inner liberation through drugs. Then you had those seeking androgyny, androgynous dress. And all of that is with us today, folks. The very foundation of the counter-revolution is here today. Political Marxists are everywhere like never before. You've never seen so many communists among the young people today. And that's going to lead to bloodshed. Millions are going to die unless somehow you wake up this generation and let them know communism is not cool. Giving everything to the state and giving utmost power to the party to distribute wealth to everybody, that is not cool. Androgyny, there's nothing holy and godly about that. And messing your mind up through drugs, there's nothing godly about that. He goes on to say, though the three groups' priorities were fundamentally different, they shared a belief that the past was old and stale. Remember, God says when you're in the midst of such an age, you better seek for the old path. If you want to find God and find rest to your soul in the midst of this hippie culture, hippie generation, you better seek the old path. Whatever they're turning upside down, you better turn it right side up. That's all I did. I came out of the hippie movement. I was the pastor of a hippie church. And all I did said, you know what, we're going to one by one start turning everything right side back up. Everything they turn upside down, step by step, year after year, we're going to turn it right side up. And you better believe a lot of people got angry. Some things they didn't want right side up. They liked it upside down. Let me give you some Bible verses. Proverbs 24. My son, fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change. As David Bowie, the sodomite, said, Change is. Face the change. Face it all. For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both? That's the ruin that the Lord and the King can put upon you. So you reject authority, authority is going to make you hurt, if it's godly good authority. You reject the Lord's authority, He's going to make you hurt. You're going to get a curse from the king and the Lord. Proverbs 20, the fear of the king is as the roaring of a lion. Whoso provoketh him to anger, sinneth against his own soul. Being against authority, unless God tells you to for His sake, is not cool. It is not a good thing. It destroys a generation of people. Isaiah 24, the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws and changed the ordinance. Notice, they're given to change. They change God's commandments. Here's Timothy Leary, the LSD promoter and intellectual leader of the 60s, one of them. He says, the morals in this country have changed. The kids just don't buy that old uptight Puritan ethic. The aim of the game is to feel good. And the function of the government is to get everyone high. Listen to what he's saying. He's saying, feel good. That's all that matters. And all we care about is that our parents fund me having a good time. And all we care about is the government making sure I have enough money to buy dope. I want to live off welfare and smoke pot. You tell me that's not here today, brother? You tell me that's not part of our culture today? It's not just the economy that's making a lot of young people still live with their parents. I believe girls should till they get married. And I believe there's some good things about boys staying, but they need to be providing. The boys need to be providing and doing their part. They don't need to be lazy, sitting around playing video games, living off their parents. Ezekiel 5, she hath changed my judgments into wickedness, more than the nations. Isn't it sad if America becomes more unholy and has become more unholy than some of the heathen nations? Of course in many ways America is now a heathen nation. And my statutes more than the countries that are round about her. And Isaiah says, Isaiah 29, God says, God forbid you as a girl want to be a man as if God had no understanding. God forbid you as a young man whose glory is your strength, you want to be a female as if God has no understanding in making you. All these rules and regulations and standards that God gave us that are our protection, we want to get rid of them. What God says about marriage, you want to get rid of. That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate. He says when they begin to turn things upside down, they're going to hate anybody that goes against it. Anybody that tries to call them back to responsibility. That's what my book, The Rod, Will God Spare It, calling Christians to accountability. Trying to face a hippie generation of Christians. I'm called everything you can imagine. They call me heretic, call me every word you can imagine. Why? Because I'm facing a bunch of hippie Christians, even if they don't have long hair, and I'm telling them that you need to fear God and be accountable. They don't like that. They don't like that. What happens when hippies get control of the state? Oh, I tell you, it's going to be bad. It's going to be bad. You're not going to find toleration. They're going to say, you make that cake for the homosexual pervert, or we will sue you. We will use the state to make you conform. Here's a song in 1967, Freak Out USA. We do what we want. We say what we want. We wear what we want. We look exactly the way we want to. The time has come for the whole world to know that we all can't conform to the rules. That's what the 60s were about. You like that? God says, if somebody says that, take them out and stone them. That's what it said in the Old Testament. That's what God said. He said, you let rebels like that come among you, it curses everybody. The Barbarians. It's a nice name for a band. They pretty much put it in writing here in 1965. Are you a boy or are you a girl? With your long blonde hair, you look like a girl. But they look like girls too. You're always wearing skin-tight pants. Yeah, you look like a girl. Hey. Hey, the 60s are still with us. A lot of these boys look like girls, whether they have long hair or not. They walk effeminate. They talk effeminate. They act effeminate. They dress effeminate. You better believe androgyny is alive and well. The 60s are still with us. Right in the middle of the free love movement, they unleash LSD. Right in the middle of the free love movement, they unleash the pill. The idea is to try to end up not being responsible. You end up without a child. birth control. You ended up with single moms in the 70s. Today, look everywhere, single moms. A lot of these moms are single because they were rebelling against anybody trying to hold them accountable. Look around you today. We have gun control. That's the fruit of the pacifism. Communists, of course, want to take away your guns so they can control you. The hippie revolution was a pacifist revolution. That's insane. America cannot be pacifist. You ought not be pacifist in your house if somebody tries to kick your door down and rape your children. Gun control is insanity. You have new age movement everywhere. So today we have single mom, we have free love, we have divorce, we have drugs, we have communism, we have gun control, we have the new age movement, we have occultism, we have uncertainty. You have a generation gap. You have people rejecting work in the conventional capitalistic society, but wanting to be supported by it. Here's the headline from just the other day, or today, USA Today, magic mushrooms for better health. Psychedelic drugs are having a moment across the US. Marijuana is being legalized all across America. There's probably never been more pot smoking, more marijuana smoking, more marijuana delusions than there is today. And now, You better believe magic mushrooms is pretty much a natural LSD. It's going to start taking the world by storm. That's on top of the Ritalin and all the psychiatric drugs everybody's already taken. Now when you look and the Bible says they're drunk, They're drunk. The whore has poured out her wine. The Babylon whore has poured out her wine among all nations, and the nations are mad. They're all drunk. That's not only the spiritual teaching, the New Age teachings, the occultism, the philosophies, but it's also literal drunkenness, intoxication from the drugs that this world is going to be taken, like in the brave new world. So where does being experienced end? I can guess. I've told some radio stations when being interviewed where it's going to end, and they mocked me. Standing out in front of the Rager Stadium, preaching against Gay Day, interviewed by radio stations. I said, well, this is homosexuality, next it'll be pedophilia. And they laughed and they mocked. I said, cannibalism will be next. Why don't you be experienced? See, how long before somebody says, I want to be experienced and do what I want? I want to be against the conventional standards of society. Why not eat a person? Here's Newsweek, time to rethink the taboo on cannibalism? Psychologists, nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable about eating human flesh. And what about free love with children? Here's a headline. A pedophile has the same ingrained attraction that a heterosexual female may feel towards a male, psychologist says. And I could go on and on and on about the new psychologist embracing pedophilia. Oh, what about this? ABC News Today. Young Americans embrace socialism, even among Miami Cubans. Here's another one. Younger generations rate patriotism, religion, and having children as less important than did young people two decades ago. Don't you dare look back and say the hippies of 1960. Oh, no, buddy. Like never before on the face of the earth. This hippie culture. Oh, you might not have the beads and the flowers in your hair. Oh, that stuff doesn't matter. As long as you're androgynous, that's what they want. As long as you do something to shock conventional people. As long as you do something to go against what they did, what your forefathers did. You know, just be shocking in some way. Get a mohawk. Put a hook in. Just do something. Paint your hair blue. It's all part of the, I'm not going to conform, but I am going to conform to whatever Satan's telling me to do. The children today are confused. They don't know how to find truth in the Bible. They don't know how to respect authority. They don't know who's behind all of this. Dear Lord, thank You for the patience of these people. I pray all who listen to this message, God, will be inspired, motivated, convicted to evaluate how much of this satanic, Marxist philosophy is still in their life, God. How much of this carefree attitude that is not of You, but is of the devil. Lord, we want pure food. We want to be self-reliant. And in that sense, get back to nature and witness the beauty of your creation. We do want to reject the excesses of a materialistic culture that pursues money as an end. But Father, we want to work hard. We want a good work ethic. And we want the foundations of everything you say about the fear of God, the Bible, the family, marriage, and how to raise godly children. Help us to stand against this zeitgeist of the age, this satanic spirit, these doctrines of devils, that turns your pure love, which you define as keeping your commandments upside down, and defines it as just loving self and seeking self and doing your own thing. Thank you, holy God, for these people in Jesus' name. Amen.