men the part of the chapter that I want to focus on is there in verse 7 where
the Bible reads for God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and
of love and of a sound mind and the title of my sermon this morning is the
mental illness triad so I'm gonna talk about three different types of mental
illness this morning and I think that this sermon is gonna be helpful maybe to
put together some things that I've preached in different sermons over the
years in the past I feel like I've touched on three different aspects of
this in three different types of sermons so I'm gonna put it all together in one
sermon to help us understand the three different reasons why people are crazy
today or they would lose their mind or what the Bible calls madness right being
crazy or what we would call today mentally ill okay so I'm gonna give the
three types of mental illness I'm gonna put them in three categories and to help
you remember this I've actually brought some visual aids today for my three
categories and these might seem a little bit strange at first but it's gonna make
sense as the sermon goes on we've got category number one right here okay the
can of bug spray category number two we've got our crayons and then category
number three I've got this tremendous faggot right here okay so this is a
bundle of sticks you never thought that one of these would be allowed in faith
board Baptist Church right this is the only one that will ever be allowed in
here so anyway I feel like this could help you remember as I point to these
things and and talk about these things this morning so first of all I want to
talk about this text we're gonna get into some other texts but in 2nd Timothy
1 7 here it says God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of
love and of a sound mind so I submit to you this morning that there are three
different types of mental illness that we could break things down into and
they're very different from one another obviously there could be some overlap
and crossover between these but basically one of them is a physical
problem that's actually just a chemical imbalance or a physical problem in your
body another one is demonic in nature and then the other is being turned over
to a reprobate mind okay and so what we would call these number one is psychosis
and then this would be your multiple personality dissociative identity
disorder schizophrenia and then over here this would be being a psychopath
okay so what are these three things I may explain these three things we're
gonna get into the scriptures okay first of all psychosis is a type of
mental illness where it's sort of like when you're having a nightmare except
you're awake so all kinds of bizarre things are happening and you can't tell
the difference between what's real and what's not real now here's the thing
about psychosis is that there's actually something in your brain that doctors
could point to and show you hey this is the chemical reaction that's going on
this molecule and that there's actually a physical indication of this right here
okay this is someone who has a physical problem in their brain okay making them
crazy and we'll get more into that when it comes to the multiple personality
disorder or dissociative identity disorder or even schizophrenia in many
cases what we're actually talking about is people simply being demon-possessed
okay when you're saying okay you know okay I want to talk to Charles now you
know can I talk to Charles Charles is it here right now you know these people are
demon-possessed all right so these multiple personalities that's simply
someone who's demonic at that but you know they have other spirits coming in
and indwelling them and taking control of their body these different
personalities and so forth okay and then when we use the term psychopath we're
talking about someone who has no conscience and even worldly psychology
textbooks and psychiatrists will diagnose people with psychopathic this
or that or the other and being a psychopath simply means that they have
no conscience and if you look for a physical indication of being psychotic
you'll find it this right here nobody knows what causes it of course we know
what causes it but when it comes to the multiple personality disorder dissociative
identity disorder there's all this controversy about what causes it because
it's not like you can take a blood test or do an MRI or a brain scan and say
well you know you got multiple personality disorder there's nothing
that physically is wrong with that person's brain it's a spiritual problem
and then of course the total lack of conscience is a spiritual problem as
well it's called being given over to a reprobate mind so this is gonna make
more sense as I get into the sermon and go through the scriptures on these three
different categories and explain why it's kind of important to understand
these three different things and to be able to differentiate between these
three different things so over here we have the psychosis now it's represented
by bug spray because one of the most shocking or interesting kinds of
psychosis is what's called parasytosis where people think that they are covered
in bugs and they think their house is filled with bugs they think they're
infested with bugs I preached on this a couple years ago and I had multiple
pest control guys contact me and say that multiple times per year they get
called out to people who feel that their body is infested in bugs or how and
there are no bugs anywhere and as a pest control guy they said everybody in their
shop deals with this multiple times a year so it's actually quite common we'll
get more into that later so that's why I have the bug spray representing what's
known as sometimes cocaine bugs because I'm feeling a snort cocaine and get this
idea that they're covered in bugs or whatever and then this is for the
schizophrenia because of the famous art therapy that you know schizophrenics are
often given crayons you know to draw with and then over here you know I think
you I think everybody understands why this represents the psychopaths okay the
reprobates and by the way if you haven't seen pastor Jimenez's documentary
psychopath reprobates I highly recommend it you can grab a free copy off the
back shelf there or watch it on YouTube or whatever all right let's go to Daniel
chapter 4 first of all Daniel chapter 4 want to talk about psychosis first of
all we're gonna talk about psychosis we're gonna talk about people that are
crazy because they actually have a physical chemical imbalance in their
brain where they can't discern reality okay let me give you some scripture on
this job chapter 12 verse 24 says he taketh away the heart of the chief of
the people of the earth and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is
no way they grope in the dark without light and he maketh them to stagger like
a drunken man when he says there he takes away their heart what he means by
that in this context is he takes away their understanding he takes away their
mental capacity he basically makes them lose their mind now this right here can
be a punishment from God now I'm not saying it's always a punishment from
God because it's the same as any illness you know sometimes we just get
sick other times God could smite someone with an illness as a punishment okay
just like in the Bible they said to Jesus when they saw a blind man they
said hey you know did this man sin or did his parents sin for him to be born
blind and Jesus said neither had this man sin neither his parents and he was
born blind for the glory of God so we don't want to judge other people and
think to ourselves oh you are going through this bad thing you must not be
right with God you must be living in sin because look at the whole book of Job
is about what the whole book of Job is about a righteous man who was afflicted
with physical ailments and lots of problems and his friends accused him of
being sinful they said oh well job you must be into some serious sin or God
wouldn't be doing this to you and job keeps insisting that he's innocent and
of course he was innocent the Bible tells us that he was the most righteous
man on the earth at that time and yet he was smitten with the worst possible
place so we don't want to jump to conclusions that whenever we see someone
suffering through something oh that's God chasing them that's got punished you
say well how do I know the difference how do I know if I'm being punished by
God or if I'm going through trials and tribulations that God's using to make me
a better person here's the answer if you're doing the right things in your
life and bad things happen you're going through trials and tribulations to make
you a better person if you're doing bad things in life then it's chastisement
from God it's special you know whether you love the Lord whether you wake up in
the morning and desire to serve him and obey him you know whether you're going
to church and reading your Bible and preaching the gospel and doing the stuff
that you're supposed to do if you're doing the things that you're supposed to
do and something bad happens you can have the assurance of knowing hey when
I'm tried I shall come forth as gold he know it the way that I take but when
you're out living a sinful life you're backslidden you're fornicating you're
drinking you're taking drugs well then guess what that's chastisement that's
punishment from God that's how you know the difference all right so you examine
yourself based on scripture and figure out whether you're living right or not
scripture can be the only judge of that not our circumstances okay so this right
here can be a punishment from God for example where you are there in Daniel
chapter 4 Nebuchadnezzar is punished with this look at Daniel chapter 4
verse 32 and they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the
beasts of the field they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and seven times
shall pass over thee until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom
of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will the same hour was the thing
fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and did eat grass as
oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like
Eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws and at the end of the days I
Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven and my understanding returned unto
me and I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored him that liveth
forever and ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and his kingdom is
from generation to generation so here we see Nebuchadnezzar is Nebuchadnezzar a
reprobate no here we see him getting right with God humbling himself and so
he's not a reprobate at all but because of being prideful and arrogant he got
punished with this right here right he got punished with insanity madness he's
driven out in the field can you imagine what it was like from living outside for
seven years eating grass being wet with the dew of heaven and the Bible says
that his hair became like Eagles feathers right and that his nails became
like bird claws so I mean his fingernails grew super long his hair
grew like he's just a wild animal nobody could reason with him he completely lost
his mind and then after seven years his mind comes back and now he's ready to be
humble before God okay so if God didn't care about him God wouldn't have done
that to him even though it was a horrible punishment it actually got him
back right with the Lord so in the end God was actually trying to help him be
humble and be righteous and so forth and I believe Nebuchadnezzar is going to be
in heaven one day so he was punished with this okay now you don't have to
turn there but in Deuteronomy 28 28 God says that he will punish those who
forsake his word with madness it says in verse 28 the Lord shall smite thee with
madness and blindness and astonishment of heart and thou shalt grope at noonday
as the blind gropeth in darkness and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways and
on and on it goes all the list of things that God will use as a punishment mental
illness could be one of them okay and remember we're talking about the
physical type of mental illness here now let me ask you this can a Christian
become a reprobate no way the the reprobate mind is something that an
unsaved person who rejects the Lord and doesn't even want to retain God in their
knowledge they are given over to a reprobate mind where they have no
conscience and they are past feeling etc ok now can a Christian be demon
possessed no I do not believe that a Christian can be demon possessed for one
second you know the Bible says greater is he that is in us than he that is in
the world we're permanently indwelled by the Holy Spirit if we're saved now we
still have the flesh that could lead us into sin but we would never be demon
possessed ok and but could we be struck with this right here absolutely God
could punish us with this or we could get this through just a physical means
that has nothing to do with the punishment of God or maybe it does it
just depends on the situation so we don't want to jump to conclusions I've
seen some people jump to conclusions where they see somebody go crazy and
they just immediately assume oh that person must not be saved because God
gave us the spirit of a sound mind but wait a minute God gave us the spirit of
a sound mind but what about our flesh could our flesh be compromised yes our
flesh could be compromised I've specifically known two people who after
getting their mercury fillings removed from their mouth went crazy okay because
of the fact that the mercury in fillings is toxic you know it's it's the heavy
metal toxicity and if they're removed carelessly it can release those toxins
in your body so sometimes people think they're doing something good like oh
man I gotta get these mercury fillings out you know get something healthier in
there well that's a great thought but you better go to a dentist who knows the
danger where they'll take extra precautions to make sure that none of
that stuff gets in your system if you have a dentist that says oh don't worry
about it I'd have somebody else take them out who understands the risk and is
careful I personally have known two people that I knew well who when they
got their mercury fillings removed went coo-coo right it's just totally crazy
totally lost their mind now why is that is that you know was it a demonic thing
was it you know was it a punishment from God or is it reprobate no what it was
was that the mercury was poisoning their body and causing a chemical imbalance in
their brain where they were just completely losing it and then they went
back to normal and and and in fact both of these guys are saved so it's not a
spiritual problem that they had they had a physical problem but let me talk about
the biggest reason why this is applicable is that drugs will do this to
you okay this is one of the biggest reasons why you shouldn't do drugs now
look God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a
sound mind you know that tells me that God wants us to have a sound mind he
wants us to be sane and how many times he tell us to be sober so he doesn't
want us drinking alcohol because then we're not fully in our right mind he
doesn't want us taking drugs then we're not fully in our right mind but let me
tell you something if you take drugs kids you can fry your brain permanently
and be this guy for the rest of your life okay and I've known people also
that that happened to I'm talking about people that I've been close to or
friends of the family that these things have happened to this is not just some
vague thing out there somewhere and I bet if I ask for a raise of hand how
many of you know people who've lost their minds due to taking drugs and just
gone completely nuts look at all the hands so listen kids it's stupid and
foolish for you to mess with drugs you say well I'm just gonna smoke a little
marijuana what's the big deal you know it's legal now go down to the dispensary
or whatever and get some marijuana look I've talked to people that struggle with
mental illness and said so which drug did you take that it was smoking
marijuana you say that's impossible okay you know what you're listening to a
bunch of garbage from people telling you that drugs are okay listen anything
anything that's poisonous coming into your body can trigger psychosis now look
some people can get mercury fillings removed and smoke pot and drink and take
drugs they could snort cocaine and they won't go crazy but is that the chance
that you want to take because guess what a lot of people who do those things do
go crazy and here's a little statistic for you studies show that men who drink
alcohol are eight times as likely to develop psychosis not even talking about
drugs you are eight times as likely to develop psychosis if you're a drinker
and for a woman if you drink your three times as likely so apparently more men
are going crazy that are drinkers but the point is these things are all
increasing your chances now now let me ask you this who's gonna get punished
more for living in sin Christians or non-christians so look if you're a
born-again child of God if you're a saved Christian and you go out as snort
cocaine who do you think God's gonna cloud up and rain on more on the child
of God who should know better and you know what God smote Nebuchadnezzar God
smote the children of Israel he smote people throughout the Bible with
insanity and he will punish you if you grow up in a Christian home and you're
going to church and then you go out there and say oh I'm just gonna so my
wild oats a little bit fool around with drugs a little bit smoke a little pot
and not only that how many times has somebody been given pot laced with
something else to try to get them hooked on a drug that's more extreme folks it's
a slippery slope you drink that beer you smoke that pot those are gateway drugs
to get you into worse things and you never know when you're gonna get that
bad batch of drugs or when your body is just not gonna be able to handle
whatever toxic poisons you're putting in and let me tell you something alcohol is
poisonous if you take it in high quantities you'll die of blood alcohol
poisoning okay drugs are poisonous toxic these are bad substances to be putting
in your body you don't want to mess with your body's balance of chemicals and
then you end up with a chemical imbalance and you might be crazy for the
rest of your life you might not be like Nebuchadnezzar where seven years later
your faculties are restored they just may never be restored you'll be one of
these people who just walks around the city screaming at the sky and totally
out of their mind or whatever so let me just run through some types of psychosis
here before we move on to the the others here are some types of psychosis it's
categorized into the bizarre delusion and the non bizarre delusion okay so
another word for being psychotic is having delusions okay so you think
things are there you think things are real that aren't real so a non bizarre
delusion is something that's false but at least it could happen like for
example someone thinks that they're under constant government surveillance
or something when they're just kind of nobody sometimes this person is
struggling from psychosis you know when they have just these unreasonable fears
of they're constantly being watched and under surveillance and there's not
really a reason to to think that then there's the bizarre delusion the one
that just has no possibility that it ever could be true in anyone like for
example there there is a really common delusion that people get with drug
induced psychosis where they think that all of their organs have been removed
for their body and replaced with someone else's and there's no scar so that's one
of the most common bizarre delusions okay but let me give you some common
themes here there's the Cotard delusion which is the false belief that the one
does not exist or has died so people are afraid that they died even though
they're here you know they're living they're here then there's delusional
jealousy where someone believes that their spouse is having an affair with no
proof to back up that claim there's the delusion of your mind being read where
people go around and they think everyone can read their mind and it says makes
them really upset and agitated and scared to get around people then here's
another one erotomania this is the false belief that another person is in love
with them and this is typically with celebrities and Paul Wittenberger and I
we know somebody who suffers from this and he's fixated on Mariah Carey and he
thinks that he's dating Mariah Carey and we used to know this guy when he was
normal we knew this guy when he was a very smart articulate normal guy now he
thinks that he's in a relationship with Mariah Carey he's constantly talking
about it online and everything I mean he's just completely lost of mind and
you know why because he took drugs took drugs lost my guy that we know oh by the
way he's been to our church before when he was normal now he's completely gone
cuckoo with erotomania where he thinks that Mariah Carey is his girlfriend or
something and I don't know why Mariah Carey but whatever he's a child of the
90s apparently but anyway the thing is though a lot of times these people can
then confront those celebrities and then get really angry when you know they act
like they don't know who they are because they don't know who they are
okay now here's a big one folks the delusions of religious grandeur now I
always thought this was just a figure of speech I didn't really know it was a
real medical diagnosis grandiose religious delusion is when people
believe that they are some kind of either a god or some kind of a
significant biblical character and I have gotten hundreds of letters and
emails from people who suffer from this and I'm not kidding and I for you know I
was perplexed by this for a long time then when I read up on drug-induced
psychosis I realized I'm like I get it now these people so now when I get these
emails I write back to them and say hey you clearly are suffering from drug
induced psychosis if you're if you're still taking the drugs you need to get
off drugs you need to seek some kind of professional help you know I write back
to people like that and they're like and then and then I'll get a response like
well yeah I take drugs but that has nothing to do with it all I do I just
smoke some pot that's it you know I'm fine but what am I talking about I'm
talking about I've gotten letters from people saying that they're one of the
two witnesses of revelation I'm afraid I'm the Antichrist what do I do I've
gotten like 20 of those I've heard from like 20 Antichrist 50 witnesses and look
there can only be two folks somebody's lying you know they can't all be the two
witnesses you know they're Moses they're Elijah I think I'm the second coming of
Jesus Christ I mean I think I'm the Antichrist I'm afraid I'm the devil I
mean I get these and you say oh I think they're just pulling your leg really
because last time I checked people don't write a 40 page handwritten letter when
they're playing a joke I'm talking about I get I get a registered mail I
think I'm getting sued or something I have to go down to the post office oh I
signed for it and they give me like 40 pages of hand I wanted to make sure this
got straight to Pastor Anderson this is serious you know I'm Moses I'm one of
the two witnesses I mean over the year folks I've been pastoring for like
almost 14 years I've gotten a lot of this stuff and I've talked to these
people in person and you know what one guy I talked to and he was totally
normal a couple years later I started getting messages like this from him a
guy who used to be normal and guess what he took drugs fried his brain I'm
telling you this is a real thing folks and then of course last but not least
delusional parasytosis delusion in which one feels infested with insects bacteria
mites spiders lice fleas worms or other organisms affected individuals may also
report being repeatedly bitten in some cases entomologists are asked to
investigate cases of mysterious bites sometimes physical manifestations may
occur including skin leaves because they'll scratch and I you know I don't
want to cross the line being too graphic here but I heard from a pest control guy
he went out to this woman's house and she was digging in her own arm trying to
show him the bugs and there was just nothing there I mean it's a I'm telling
you well oh yeah just go ahead folks don't listen to me go out smoke pot
snort cocaine do drugs whatever but you know what this is your future and you
know what how would you like your life to be a nightmare that never is how
would you like to live a real living horror movie that just never ends where
you're just covered in fleas covered in lice covered in bugs you have little
things burrowing into you it's the worst thing that could ever happen and you
know what God talks about he said I will choose your delusions I'll bring
your fears upon you God can punish people with this and you know you go
out and take drugs you are asking for this okay this is not fun but people
lose their minds every day this is not some rare thing folks it happens all the
time I'll read this for Isaiah 66 for I also will choose their delusions and
will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I
spake they did not hear but they did evil before my eyes and chose that in
which I delighted not so you know you got choose what God does not delight in
you don't listen to the Word of God you don't listen to preaching you don't
listen to your parents you don't listen to advice you go out and live a worldly
sinful life you start messing around with drinking and it by the way even
cigarettes have nicotine in them the nicotine can be a trigger for this to
any kind of substances you're putting in your body look just put food and
drink in your body all this junk that you're putting in your body all these
toxins eventually they reach a tipping point and it's just like you crack I
don't want to crack you shouldn't want to go there and this is the worst thing
that could happen to you so watch out for this okay let's move on to this go
if you would to mark chapter 5 mark chapter 5 so we're talking about three
different types of mental illness the the triad this morning right we've got
psychosis we've got the multiple personality dissociative identity
disorder schizophrenia and we've got over here the reprobates the psychopath
now look a lot of people mix up these words because they're so similar
psychopath psychotic these are not the same thing you know cuz I'll just say
somebody's a psycho well what do you mean by that you know what I mean are we
talking about this guy who's got a physical chemical imbalance which could
be from toxicity it could be from taking drugs it could be a punishment from God
or it could be just through no fault of his own he got exposed to something
through whatever vaccines or just toxins in the air the water supply bad food I
mean you know anything could trigger this or nothing and then of course so
this right here this is different the site the psychotic guy is confused about
what's real and what's not real he's living a life that's a nightmare all the
time this guy right here is a guy with no conscience the psychopath we don't
want to mix up these two things all right these are different and then this
right here is the mic now you say pastor Anderson why are you differentiating
these things because we've got a physical problem a demon problem and
we've got a reprobate problem now look is everybody who's demon-possessed a
reprobate no because you see all kinds of demon-possessed people in the Bible
getting saved right the demons leave they get saved they believe on Christ so
this guy and look is every reprobate demon-possessed no these are see these
are different things now look can a Christian be reprobate no can a
Christian be demon-possessed no but can a Christian become psychotic yeah
because I was just talking to a guy the other day and he said you know I was
really concerned because I won this guy to the Lord and then he developed
psychosis and then I thought oh I guess the guy's not saved because God gave us
the spirit of a sound mind we get our sense a physical problem now if somebody
becomes this guy yeah he wasn't saved because that's a reprobate mind that's
reserved for the unsafe if somebody's demon-possessed yeah they're not saved
Christians can't be demon-possessed so anyway let's look down at our Bible and
learn something about people that are demon-possessed Mark chapter 5 verse 1
and they came over under the other side of the sea into the country of the
Gadarenes and when he was come out of the ship immediately there met him out
of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit that's another word for a demon
or a devil an unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man
could bind him no not with chains because that he had been often bound
with fetters and chains and the chains had been plectus under by him and the
fetters broken in pieces neither could any man tame him and always night and
day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with
stones and cried with a loud voice and said what have I to do with thee Jesus
thou son of the Most High God I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not but
when he saw Jesus afar off he ran and worshipped him and cried with a loud
voice and said what have I to do with thee Jesus thou son of the Most High God
I adjure thee by God thou torment me not and he said unto him come out of the man
thou unclean spirit did I just read the same verse a couple times yeah yeah I
got a little mixed up that my notes got a little mixed up I'm losing it no no
but what it is is my notes for some reason when I pasted this in it goes
verse 5 verse 7 verse 6 verse 7 again verse 8 all right so we're skipping
around a little bit all right sorry about that for he said to him come out
of the man thou unclean spirit and he asked him what is thy name and he
answered watch this saying my name is Legion for we are many folks this is
your multiple personality disorder this is your dissociative identity disorder
folks it's not one person who has many personalities or one person who has many
identities what it is is there's the person and then there are the demons
that are living inside them and when they're talking to this name and that
name they're talking to this demon in that demon so here we have an example of
someone possessed by multiple demons saying well you know my name is Legion
because we are many okay so multiple entities living there go to Matthew
chapter 17 another thing that we saw there with the demon possession not only
did we see the the multiple personalities or the dissociative
identity where Jesus isn't really talking to the guy inside he's talking
to the demons that are indwelling him but we also saw the self-destructive
behavior right cutting himself with stones and folks this is a big thing I
mean I remember when I was a teenager these gothics that would be cutting
themselves and lancing themselves and had all these scars of cutting
themselves folks that is a demonic activity someone who is cutting
themselves is either a demon possessed or be mimicking someone who's demon
possessed and try to be like yeah I can be like Trent Reznor or something you
know I can be like whoever you know because they they have heroes that are
demonic but it's demonic make no mistake about it making cuttings in your flesh
for the dead is in the same breath with you know eating blood and practicing
witchcraft in Leviticus 19 the prophets of Baal who are worshipping Satan they
cut themselves until the blood gushed out here we see a demoniac in mark 5
cutting himself folks people are doing that are either demon-possessed or
they're following stars amongst these I don't think gothic's a thing anymore I
guess now it's been replaced by emo is that right or is that a little bit of a
different thing who knows emo is gone too man I need to get up to date here so
who's cutting themselves these days who are the demoniacs these days all right
emo is alive and well according to one source all right so anyway the point is
that you know this is the devil wanting people to destroy themselves look down
at your Bible Matthew 17 15 Lord have mercy on my son for he's a lunatic and
what does lunatic mean to us when we hear the word lunatic we think somebody's
crazy right they're nuts he's lunatic comes from the word Luna like lunar like
the moon like they're crazy over the moon crazy yeah so he's lunatic and
sore vexed for off times he falleth into the fire and often the water so here's a
guy he's throwing himself in the fire the demons throwing him in the fire or
throwing him in the water cutting himself this kind of self-destructive
self-harming behavior multiple personalities 23% of schizophrenics
practice self-harm 10% have already attempted suicide now here's the thing
with skits schizophrenia could be now look multiple personality and dissociative
identity disorder is right here for sure they're demon-possessed all right no
question about that now some types of schizophrenia can be this over here
because of the fact that sometimes what's called schizophrenia is really
crossing the line over into psychosis a little bit where it's a different
reality but the reason that I put a lot of schizophrenia in this category right
here is because I wanted to use the box of crayons number one but number two is
because of the fact that schizophrenia a lot of times involves people hearing
voices and telling them to do bad things telling them to hurt themselves telling
them to cut themselves telling them to hurt other people and they talked to
these imaginary friends who tell them to do bad things well guess what that's
demonic right there so that right that's why I'm lumping that in but some people
who could have been to diagnose schizophrenia you know if they're not
hearing these kind of voices and having these other entities and personalities
then you know they could just be more in this category so I'm not trying to just
draw like a hard line necessarily but we need to understand the three sources
of these issues that people are having in their brain okay so now let's move on
to this right here okay the psychopath go to Ephesians chapter 4 Ephesians
chapter 4 while you're turning to Ephesians chapter 4 so let's let's
review here we got the psychotic and then we got here the multiple
personalities or schizophrenic and then over here we have the psychopath the
psychopath is the person who has what do they not have they don't have a
conscience and even the world will tell you this if you watch that documentary
that pastor Jimenez made I mean they show all kinds of interviews with
psychologists and psychiatrists saying these people can't be fixed there's
nothing we can do for them they'll never get better all we can do is just try to
make sure that they don't do too much damage and just try to mitigate the
results of their behavior or their mentality but he said they basically
teach once a psychopath is always a psychopath you know it's just they they
have no conscience they have no normal human empathy for other people okay so
look at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 17 this I say therefore and testify in the
Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of
their mind having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their
heart and look at verse 19 who being past feeling these people have gone so
far they have no feelings anymore who being past feeling have given themselves
over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness but ye have
not so learned Christ go if you would to Titus chapter 1 Titus chapter 1 also
1st Timothy chapter 4 speaks of those who are false prophets as speaking lies
in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron so their
conscience has been seared with a hot iron what does that mean well think
about this what if you have your fingerprints on your fingers and you
just seared them or just melted the tips of your fingers and it's just it's just
gone there's no indication so when the Bible talks about having the conscience
seared with a hot iron you know it's the conscience is no longer functioning
the conscience has been numbed or destroyed or rendered useless their past
feeling look what Titus chapter 1 verse 14 says not giving heed to Jewish fables
and commandments of men that turn from the truth unto the pure all things are
pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even
their mind and conscience is defiled the mind and conscience is defiled they
profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and
disobedient and under every good work reprobate so many of the false prophets
and false teachers and religious charlatans are psychopaths they're what
the worldly psychologists call the corporate psychopath if you saw that
documentary the corporate psychopath the one who's not out there just being a
serial killer but he is still just totally unscrupulous willing to hurt
anyone for his own gain he'll lie he'll send people to hell he doesn't care it's
he'll teach lies for money all that matters is his own fame his own success
his own financial gain so people that are look at these terms that we're
saying go to Romans 1 past feeling conscience seared with the hot iron mind
and conscience defiled reprobate which means rejected right and in this context
that means rejected by God so that's a psychopath and it's funny how even the
world tells us that there are people amongst us who are past feeling have no
conscience and they're just super wicked and they and they seem like everybody
else they can they can act like they have feelings they can act like they
care act like they love you but inside they're just conniving manipulating and
really they have no moral compass at all they'll do anything they'll do
anything they have no conscience look at Romans chapter 1 verse 25 who changed
the truth of God into a lie and worship the and serve the creature more than the
Creator who's blessed forever amen for this cause God gave them up on to vile
affections vile is that which is disgusting vile affections for even
their women to change the natural use into that which is against nature and
likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their
lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and
receiving themselves that recompense of their error which is me and let me tell
you if you do that you'll do anything okay that is not normal as abnormal
these vile affections these disgusting things the the men with men and
everything else listed here and even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which
are not convenient and let me tell you something this is appropriate in this
discussion because we're talking about the mind see when we when we talk about
the reprobate let's not forget it's the reprobate mind the reprobate mind okay
so when we talk about different types of insanity we're talking about the psychotic
we're talking about the multiple personalities and then we're talking
about the psychopathic and let me tell you something the sodomites are in this
category the Bible tells us that they are reprobates and if we if we don't
have time to read the whole passage he talks about how their heart has been
darkened their eyes have been blinded all the same things that it said about
the people that are past feeling conscience mind defiled reprobate
concerning the faith etc no conscience no limit that's why the Bible lists all
these other activities that they will inevitably do because they have no
conscience right so it tells it let me get there in my Bible because this is
this wasn't in my notes this way but if we get there what we just read about you
know the women changing the natural use that which is against nature verse 27
leaving the natural use the woman burning in their lusts wanted another men
with men look what it says about this group of people in verse 29 being filled
with all unrighteousness well of course if you have no conscience you're gonna
be filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness
maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whispers backbiters
haters of God despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things disobedient
parents now look the Bible's not saying that if you do these things you're a
reprobate because of course lots of people disobeyed their parents or
boasted or were pride that's not the point the point is that the reprobate
does all these things it's not saying hey if you do any of these things you're
a reprobate it's saying here's what reprobates do they may understand the
difference there these are all the things they do why would they do these
things why would they be so implacable and unmerciful as it says at the end of
verse 31 the answer is because they have no conscience because the mind and
the conscience is defiled the reprobate mind is not a normal brain it's not a
normal functioning brain it's not a normal functioning mind okay our brain
stops us from doing horrible things because of our conscience and just
because certain things would just be revolting or disgusting does we're human
beings we're not an animal you see animals like like you see the dog
returned to his vomit or something you know stuff like that is disgusting to us
because we're human okay but the reprobate mind is given over to just
filth the reprobate mind is just given over to no conscience just harming other
people what is it unmerciful mean it means someone's crying for mercy and you
won't show them any mercy what's implacable mean it means nothing will
stop you nothing will satisfy you nothing will get you to back down you're
just gonna keep coming okay relentless and so this is totally different this
person is super super wicked just doomed beyond salvation past feeling hey they
didn't want to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a
reprobate mind they rejected God God rejected them Jeremiah chapter 6 verse
30 says reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord has rejected them
okay but is this guy just totally doomed and rejected by God no not necessarily
no because this guy even if even if somebody who's demon-possessed could
still get saved okay and I'm not gonna ask for a raise of hand hey who was
demon-possessed before you got saved you know I'm not gonna ask for that raise of
hands but you know what I'm sure there are probably some people that are here
that would testify to having some experience with this kind of stuff
before they got saved okay and I definitely believe I've run into people
and I'm not gonna get into all my stories of people that I've run into
that I believe were demon-possessed obviously but you know this guy can
still be saved and now is this guy already saved no I don't I do not believe
for one second that a Christian could be demon-possessed when someone's
demon-possessed they're not saved okay but they could get saved unless they're
this guy too now let's face it there could be combos there could be a guy
who's both of these right Judas Iscariot not saying he was a
faggot but I'm saying he was a reprobate I'm not saying he drew with crayons
either but I'm just you know these are just the categories this is the
psychopath you know he was definitely a reprobate it was too late for him he was
doomed but he was also possessed by the devil Satan entered into him right and
then you know obviously yeah you know this guy could develop this and you know
what a combination that would be okay or you know you could have somebody who has
this and this you know an unsaved person right they could be demon-possessed and
have a chemical imbalance could be a mixture of both but we just want to make
sure that we don't just paint with a broad brush here's what I want to make
sure that we know to say anybody who's having mental problems is unsaved and
wicked is that really true that's not true because of the fact that there are
chemical issues now now let me kind of just change tack a little bit in the
sermon and talk about something else because I've got a list here and I'm
just trying to kind of squeeze everything into this sermon that I can
because of the fact that this is kind of an overview sermon you know I've done
whole sermons on the reprobate and the psychopath I've done whole sermons on
demon-possessed I've done whole sermons on drug-induced psychosis like I did
that sermon called ways to destroy yourself where I went into more detail
and talked about that but the thing is I wanted to do this sermon to give the
overview and kind of show you how all these things are similar and how they're
different so that we can get kind of the bigger picture okay now the world and
the worldly psychology of this world you know they break down mental illness into
six categories okay so let me read you the six categories according to the
professionals as it were okay number one depression number two ritualizing which
is like addictions number three phobias number four personality disorders and by
the way if you think this multiple personality or dissociative identity
disorders rare studies show that one to three percent of people meet the full
criteria one to three percent of people okay that's according to worldly
psychologists they say one to three percent of people are clinically
multiple personality or dissociative identity okay number five perpetual
distortions or schizophrenia and number six serial crime disorders serial crime
disorders okay so let's kind of break this down you know serial crime
disorders which one you think we're talking about here the reprobate right
serial crime disorder somebody's a serial killer serial rapist serial
adulterer whatever somebody who's just no conscience right so that's category
six here okay the the personality disorders and schizophrenia that's four
and five are covered here right what about phobias phobias you know I would
tend that that could lean toward this over here because a lot of the psychosis
could be like a phobia but of course there could be crossover because the
Bible calls these people fearful it says that they're the that they're fearful
people and and again that's another sermon and then you know the phobias
could also be you know this right here of course it could be either one or
somebody's just scared and then then we've got ritualizing or addiction okay
well some of that's not even a mental illness that's just somebody who just
keeps sinning okay you know what I mean so I think that isn't necessarily even a
mental illness always it could just be somebody who's addicted to something and
then depression okay well you know depression again it could just be
somebody sad or whatever or it you know it could be a physical issue it's not
necessarily psychosis but just a physical issue so a lot of your phobias
are under this because of the you know you're scared of bugs you're scared of
being wiretapped you're scared of all these things that aren't really
happening or whatever so let me just briefly talk about depression in closing
here okay so the Bible the Bible calls this heaviness okay so if you think
about depression what does it mean to depress something means like press it
down right you know depress such and such the button you'll read an
instruction sometimes so depression is is something weighing down on you or the
Bible calls it heaviness so some of what we call depression is just people are
going through a hard time they're just sad and some of its normal and it's not
a physical problem it's not even a spiritual problem necessarily it's just
you're going through a hard thing I mean if your if your child dies or something
you're gonna be sad that's normal you're mourning we don't mourn like those who
have no hope but we still mourn amen so a lot of times people just want to just
put a label on something and say it's an illness so they can give you a drug oh
you're addicted to sin well ritualizing you're mentally ill here are the drugs
that'll be a thousand dollars you know so you got to think about that oh you're
depressed oh here take this pill oh your kid just died a week and a half ago
and you're still depressed oh here you better take these pills folks that's
normal to be mourning for a few weeks few months now obviously you do need to
eventually get over that and move on with your life but the Bible indicates
people when when someone dies someone's mourning for 30 days or mourning for a
week or morning you know so there's a time period of mourning there that's
normal but then of course we you know we cling to the promises of God we don't
mourn like those who have no hope we know that we're gonna see our loved ones
again if they're saved etc so a lot of the depression is just people being sad
we're not support we're not designed to be happy all the time folks you know
it's okay to be sad sometimes right Jesus wept you're gonna go through times
of sorrow times of joy that's normal now some people though are perpetually
depressed that is a problem and sometimes people are depressed the point
of being suicidal obviously that's a serious issue now this could be one of a
couple things this could be a spiritual problem you know some people if they're
if they're not right with God if they're living in sin if they're not reading
their Bible they're not praying you know they could get depressed partially just
from feeling guilty and because they feel like they they have no meaning in
their life or that they're not going anywhere because it guess what I got
news for you if you're not serving God you're going nowhere in life right I
feel like I'm going nowhere well if you're not serving God you're right you
are going nowhere you got to serve God with your life all right you got to love
the Lord you got to follow his his way for your life but look we don't want to
make the mistake again of thinking that every single person who is depressed has
a spiritual problem we don't want to just say oh you're depressed read your
Bible it's like I'm already reading my Bible and I'm still friends you know
alright hey oh you're depressed you need to pray more listen to more hymns you
know go to listen to more preaching folks I agree that those things are the
answer to our spiritual problems right the answers to our spiritual problems
are what you know getting fellowship in the local church reading our Bibles
going out soul winning praying keeping God's Commandments doing unto others and
and and if we if we do things for other people we get the emphasis off our self
we'll stop being depressed right because a lot of times being depressed you're
just focused on self and sometimes when I've been sad if I can go out and do
something else for someone else then I feel better or sometimes if I'm sad and
depressed I go to church and then I feel great I read my Bible then I feel great
I start singing a hymn I feel great so look yes those things can be the answer
but those things are not always the answer because what if somebody has a
physical problem what if somebody has a physical problem we don't want to just
say everything's a spiritual problem that isn't true because we were made up
of body soul and spirit and and here's the thing I'm gonna put these away
because these aren't really relevant to the rest of the sermon and I hope those
things are helpful just to help you remember a little bit and not not don't
get too fixated on the crayons and the bug spray that was just a little memory
thing to help you remember the sermon and and you know I'm gonna quiz you like
a year from now and I think you're gonna remember the bug spray the crayons
and that tremendous faggot that was up here so basically here's the thing okay
if you're depressed it could be a spiritual issue like I said if you're
not right with God but what if you're doing the right things and you're still
depressed I mean what if you're what if you're reading your Bible you're going
to church you love the Lord and you're still feeling like crud all the time
look it's out there folks people struggle with this you know you might
have a physical problem and let me tell you some drugs are not the answer
antidepressants are not the end read the read the side effects on the
antidepressants suicide depression they they literally say side effect
depression side effect suicidal thoughts folks you don't want to get started on
that stuff and then you know what that stuff folks you know you got the
depression and then you take that and then that can trigger this that can
trigger psychosis when you start taking a bunch of cocktail of psychiatric drugs
now all of a sudden you're covered in bugs and they're not really there all
right sometimes the bugs really are there so you know consult a professional
but anyway so the point is there could be a physical now I'm just gonna in
closing I'm gonna give you the threefold cure for depression here's my
threefold cure for depression because when people come to me and they're
depressed I always check them on three areas okay I check them on three areas
if I can because when whenever I hear about people committing suicide a lot of
times they they get a they get a strike on all three of these areas okay see our
part of the way that our mood is regulated is by endorphins okay so we
have endorphins in our brain we have we have a part of our brain known as the
reward center so part of the way our brain works is that our brain will
reward us for doing certain things okay and endorphins make us feel good and if
you don't have endorphins you get depressed whereas the endorphins can
lift your spirit okay so how are these endorphins released well exercising can
release endorphins so let's say you're just living a very sedentary life you're
sitting around you're just doing nothing you're watching TV a lot you're playing
video games a lot you're on social media a lot but you're not physically getting
out there and getting winded working up a sweat or doing any heavy lifting let
me tell you something I'm not surprised that you're depressed because that's how
our body releases endorphins to make us feel good you know you talk about the
runners high or anything look if you go and do a hard workout at the time you're
suffering but afterwards you feel great I mean you'll come home from the gym or
from running or where and you're like hey everybody you know you feel great
who has experienced that euphoric feeling of course you feel good right so
now it doesn't have to be exercise maybe you have a physical job if you have a
physical job where you're out working really hard physically you'll get the
same endorphins just from doing some hard physical activity okay but not only
that number two is that you can have endorphins released just from achieving
something or accomplishing so it doesn't have to be like a hard physical activity
it could even just be an achievement like for example you know every day I go
through hundreds of flashcards for different foreign languages that I'm
learning and stuff like that so I'm always going through hundreds of
flashcards every day even just if you look at a flashcard and you get the
answer right there's just a little endorphin there of like you got it
right you win you know your body's like rewarding you your brain is rewarding
you for getting the answer right so that way you'll remember tomorrow because you
want to get it right again because it feels good to get it right or let's say
you go to work and let's say you do a really good job at work you know let's
say it even if it's not a physical thing let's say you go to your white-collar
job you know your management job or your computer-aided drawings you know let's
say you build something or finish something or turn in that project or
deliver that speech or deliver that presentation or finish that report
finishing things accomplishing things getting things right makes you feel good
right and then of course and again this is not available to everyone but if
you're married there's something else that makes you feel good they're
released endorphins okay so here's the thing about this here's what you'll find
you'll find people that are depressed and suicidal sedentary no job so they're
not really they don't have any achievements or they're not working
toward anything they don't have any goals and then often single okay and then it's
you know now look again I'm not saying hey you can't be happy unless you're
married or something because look you got two other avenues to get your
endorphins right but let me tell you something look if you're single if
you're a young teenage boy right and you're you know you're at that age where
you know fornication is a temptation for you you know what you need to be doing
you need to be doing some physical hard work okay so that you can find another
way to get your endorphins and you're not tempted by the devil to do the
wicked sin of fornication right get out there and do something else to feel good
get out there and work hard build something do something exercise lift
weights run whatever you like to do play sports whatever but you got to get
involved in something you know Isaac Newton said something along the line my
you know I I'm gonna botch the quote but I wasn't my notes but Isaac Newton said
something along the lines of you know the key to being pure you know is not to
fixate on purity all the time because he said if you're fixating on purity then
you're thinking about women all the time you know how that I'm not gonna think
about women or whatever so he said he said the way to stay pure is to get
busy with other things you know be busy with other work and studies and other
things you know to take your mind off of what the devil's trying to tempt you
with because of the fact that out of sight out of mind and that's why the
devil is constantly trying to put those images before us in 2019 he wants you to
think about that and fixate on that all the time so we got to unplug from that
stuff you know get in our Bibles get out and do some work you know get out get
out in the wilderness and do some hiking go climb a mountain you know go on a
bike ride get out there and you know what you'll get the endorphins and you
won't be fixated on the wrong things but if you know well here's how I unwind at
the end of the day you know I just plop down front of the TV and watch three or
four hours of scantily clad women on TV oh yeah then you're gonna feel great
you're sedentary you're putting a bunch of temptation in front of your mind
you're not getting the endorphins from going out and physically doing something
and then you're sad and depressed and gloomy okay so anyway you know I just
want to let you know that every mental problem is not a spiritual problem some
mental problems are spiritual problems some mental problems are physical
problems okay and look the psychiatric industry doesn't have the right answer
no matter what your problem is if your problem is a spiritual problem then you
know what you got to get right with God read your Bible pray go to church go
soul-winding get involved right amen that's that that's the fix for this
we're constantly fixing the spiritual problem here three times a week we're
we're dosing you with some some powerful medicine here three times a week okay if
that's not enough hop on YouTube and listen to you know the sermons from our
friends all the other churches how many how many sermons are being produced now
amongst our friends about 80 sermons a week going on on YouTube or something
it's impossible to keep up with it all so pick you know pick your medicine it's
all there for you but but look if you have a physical problem don't go running
to the doctor because you're a little sad or something what you need to do
first before you you know now look if you're if you're you know pulling out
your nails with pliers or something yeah you know you might need to go get some
serious help you might need to get professional help at some point okay but
what I'm saying is you know what you need to try to do is fix the physical
problem by evaluating your lifestyle and this is biblical advice my friend because
the Bible talks about the right kind of eating and drinking the Bible talks
about working hard working by the sweat of our face all the days of our life
right the Bible talks about you know it's better to marry than to burn and so
look folks this is biblical base advice about how to fix the physical problem
why don't you take a look at your new you depressed okay stop eating so much
junk food that's why you feel so cruddy your reward centers like shall I reward
you for this junk that you're putting in your body should I praise you for this I
praise you not okay your reward center look you want to feel good you want to
you want to activate the reward center hey start eating good food and get out
there and by the way get in the Sun you know a lot of people are depressed
because they live in cloudy places what's your excuse I mean we live in the
valley look don't lock yourself up all day man get outside get in the sunshine
go for a look and look you say well I'm not a big exercise guy okay take a walk
yeah I'm not saying you got to go run a marathon but can you walk around the
block a few times I mean can you go on a walk for a half hour hey get out there
take a nature walk take a hike go for a run ride your bike lift weights swim
whatever you like to do but you've got to get off your butt and get moving now
look if you just sit on your butt all day and you're as happy as a clam well
good for you but you know what if you're if you're feeling sad and depressed get
active get this it's not just about folks it's not people don't just
exercise just to lose weight it's it's about the psychological benefit it's a
mental benefit is a huge benefit to it let's buy rides and have a word of
prayer father we thank you so much for your word Lord and and Lord I pray that
people would take heed unto the advice that you give Lord and and you warn us
so many times about hey that we need to keep your commandments or or you could
you could punish us with with mental illness madness astonishment take away
our hearts Lord help us to take those warnings seriously also help us to take
the warning seriously that tells us to be sober not to be drunk Lord help us to
take the warning seriously about being idle and lazy and slothful Lord help us
to eat right drink right work hard get physical and Lord just please help
everyone in our church to have a sound mind I know that's your will for our
church and anyone who hears this message Lord please help them to have a sound
mind if there's anyone who's afflicted with any of these things I pray that
they would find the right solution and Lord help us to use discernment making a
difference understanding you know what people's issue is understanding the
difference between the reprobate and the psychotic and the