GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Addiction in the Last Days: Breaking the Invisible Chains on the Mind

Eric Walsh

01 A Generation Addicted: Drugs, Demons, and a Rising Death Toll

02 The Brain on Drugs: How the Devil Chains the Mind

03 The New Drug: Pornography and Sex Addiction

04 Healing the Brain After Addiction: The Power of Our Health Message

05 Sobriety and the End of Time: The Need of a Clear Mind to Avoid Deception

Let's get into God's Word for this morning.

And just to give a recap before I read the verse and pray.

So this session has been on addiction and it's been about how the devil uses these chemical substances behaviors.

And with the advent of legalized sports gambling, there are reports now that some of the young men in college campuses are really losing a lot of money over gambling because you can legally do it now.

And we talked about how marijuana's different from every other drug.

Marijuana works on both the presynaptic and the postsynaptic aspects of the dopaminergic system of the dopamine nerves.

And so by doing that, it actually is a gateway drug.

And as we're gonna talk a little bit about today, marijuana also opens up the mind for spiritualism and demonism.

This is why there are religions like Rastafarianism and others and some of the practices of Hinduism, which is actually where Rastafarians, a lot of them don't notice, that's where they get that practice actually from.

And it is to open up your mind so spirits will come in.

And so that you're open to this to the spirit world.

We talked about marijuana and alcohol how they may how they change your ability to make wise decisions and of course we we had a whole session where we really focused on sexual sin, pornography.

And as I travel around, this is 1 of the biggest, I think this is 1 of the things that is really going to destroy many in the remnant church.

Sexual sin for sure, Ellen White talks extensively about it and uses the analogy back to Baal Peor where Balaam and Balak conspired against the children of Israel and the men of Israel fell.

Always when it comes to sexual sin the devil starts with the men.

The sexual revolution started with magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, all designed to make men give up the Victorian ideas about sex, traditional ideas about sex, intimacy, commitment, and pervert men.

Once you pervert the men, almost by default, the women fall in line.

In fact, as much as I celebrate that the feminist movement is very much against pornography, feminism basically said that whatever a man does, a woman should be able to do.

And hence, the curse carried from the men of Western society to the women of Western society.

And so that now We talked yesterday about the fact that in churches, when they did a poll on Christians, 75% of the men, 70 or 75% of the men said they used pornography, 40% of the women.

And that more than half of those who said they used pornography said they actually have no problem with it.

And once you do that you fulfill the prophecy of 2nd Timothy 3 5 where it says that they have the form of godliness but they deny the power of thereof which is the Holy Spirit.

So all that we've talked about so far is really to get you to a point where we're going to talk about today, which is the reason God forbids these things, the reason the remnant church, Adventism, even though we are ridiculed because of our stance on sexual issues, on abstinence from alcohol, drugs, our health message around what we eat, and all these different things.

We're ridiculed about the fact that we don't drink caffeine, or at least we're not supposed to.

But as the science comes out, it supports the idea that if you want the kind of mind that will be able to discern deception in the last days, you cannot be involved in these practices.

They will cloud your judgment ever so slightly and if you want an example of how important it is to not be deceived in these last days.

Think about what they can do with artificial intelligence now.

If you are not rooted and grounded, you trust what you see.

The time is coming when they will be able to make you see things.

So we've always said, well, the demons are gonna come and impersonate.

Somebody can program a computer to promote the deceptions and I don't think I put it in this talk but there's a really good study out of MIT that shows that in fact where If you take if you put on social media, if you put a lie on social media, it travels about 1000 times faster and about 100 times further than if you tell the truth.

That means the most popular people on social media are probably inherently lying to you.

The more popular they are on social media, the more likely they are they're actually telling you lies because that's how you get you can't get very famous telling the truth.

So all of that is to say that as we talk about this 1, now today, the Lord led me that I should go back over another form of habit addiction, 1 of the ways the devil gets in, and that is entertainment.

So we're gonna talk a little bit more about entertainment today.

We did a little bit the other days, and we're gonna go a little deeper into it today as we talk about the clarity of mind.

So with all of that said, let's get into this.

Our scripture reading comes from 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18 which says, flee fornication.

Every sin that a man does is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

What, Paul says, don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are whose God's we belong to God changes the way you do everything because what society tells you is do what you want to do do what feels good to you that's not what the Bible teaches the Bible says Jesus himself actually says it deny yourself take up your cross and follow me.

That is the instruction given to each of us as Christians.

Father God we thank you for this opportunity to study your word and I just ask now that you lead us by the power of your Holy Spirit.

These are once again very difficult spiritual issues to talk about and the devil is busy.

But Lord, right now in the name of Jesus, we rebuke Satan.

And Lord, we ask that you bind him and cast him far from this place.

Soften hearts and allow the Holy Spirit for him to move on the hearts and minds of your people now.

Our talk, Clear Minds in the Last Days, Guarding Against End-Time Deception.

We're going to use the Bible story found in Daniel chapter 5.

Daniel chapter 5 says, Belshazzar the king made a great feast to 1000 of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.

Here the Bible gives the example again of the dangers of intoxication.

I mean I get around to it at the end of the story, but he knew the truth.

In fact, he is 1 of the few pagan people in the Bible who actually has a chapter that you can credit to him, Daniel chapter 4.

So he knew the truth, but here he is getting drunk.

The Bible says in verse 2, Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple, which is in Jerusalem, that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines might drink therein.

When you get drunk, you naturally and almost automatically bring out the vessels that belong to the temple of God.

Every time you engage in these behaviors that destroy the body temple, you are violating, defying the vessels of God.

You belong to God and so as you do these things, all these things begin to happen and he has all his wives as concubines and he's just carrying on terrible verse 3.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was at Jerusalem.

Out of the out of the temple of the house of God, which is at Jerusalem and the king and his princess his wives and his concubines drank in them they drank wine and what did they do they drank wine and what did they do after that they praised the gods of gold and of silver of brass of iron of wood and of stone drunkenness led to idolatry drunkenness all care was gone It is even more interesting because again, we may not get to the back end of the story that in fact, right as they're partying that whole city and nation in a sense is surrounded by their enemy.

Some of us are partying while the enemy has us surrounded.

So here they're they're having this feast.

Ellen White doesn't use often use words like this but look at what she says.

Ellen White says, with reason dethroned through shameless intoxication and the lower impulses and passions now on the in the ascendancy the king himself took the lead in the riotous orgy You don't really think about Ellen White's talking like that there do you?

I normally wouldn't even read such a word except it's a part of the verse, a part of the part of the passage.

The Bible says, come let us reason together.

Without the ability to reason, you, it is difficult and I would almost argue impossible to be saved.

He wants you intoxicated with something so that you are unreasonable, so that you can't choose.

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Addiction in the Last Days: Breaking the Invisible Chains on the Mind

05 Sobriety and the End of Time: The Need of a Clear Mind to Avoid Deception

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